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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 27.3B · Q4_K

Excellent

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K

Global Score
58 vs 90
Hardware Fit
68 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
MachineMac mini
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K
Cores1016
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4AlderLake-S GT1, AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
Tokens/sec16.739.0
First chunk23 ms305 ms
TTFT14.1 s305 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage7.8 GB12.5 GB
Memory %33%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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