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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-0.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 0.6B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
58 vs 40
Hardware Fit
68 vs 89
Quality Score
54 vs 19

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-0.6b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-0.6b
Tokens/sec16.714.4
First chunk23 ms854 ms
TTFT14.1 s854 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-0.6b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3-0.6b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
4/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest