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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 82
Hardware Fit
68 vs 92
Quality Score
54 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-7b-instruct
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-7b-instruct
Tokens/sec16.722.0
First chunk23 ms477 ms
TTFT14.1 s477 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB4.0 GB
Memory %33%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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