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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · IQ4_XS

Excellent

Aug 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-7700HQ

Global Score
58 vs 87
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_…
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL702VMK
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-7700HQ
Cores108
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_…
Tokens/sec16.724.7
First chunk23 ms283 ms
TTFT14.1 s283 ms
Load timeN/A45.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB4.3 GB
Memory %33%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:la…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:la…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest