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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
58 vs 80
Hardware Fit
68 vs 60
Quality Score
54 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1020
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Parsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec16.714.7
First chunk23 ms796 ms
TTFT14.1 s796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage7.8 GB17.9 GB
Memory %33%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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