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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 6, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
58 vs 81
Hardware Fit
68 vs 63
Quality Score
54 vs 88

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
RAM24 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.717.2
First chunk23 ms845 ms
TTFT14.1 s845 ms
Load timeN/A103.1 s
Memory usage7.8 GB21.9 GB
Memory %33%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest