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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 95
Hardware Fit
68 vs 94
Quality Score
54 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss-20b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec16.7118.2
First chunk23 ms471 ms
TTFT14.1 s2.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB11.3 GB
Memory %33%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
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