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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

prism-ml/bonsai-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q1_0

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Global Score
58 vs 81
Hardware Fit
68 vs 95
Quality Score
54 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx prism-ml/bonsai-27b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PH
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
Cores1032
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610M
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx prism-ml/bonsai-27b
Tokens/sec16.733.6
First chunk23 ms20 ms
TTFT14.1 s409 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %33%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

prism-ml/bonsai-27b

Speed
46/50
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

prism-ml/bonsai-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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