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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 20, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
58 vs 78
Hardware Fit
68 vs 49
Quality Score
54 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-next:80b-a3b…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.78.7
First chunk23 ms1524 ms
TTFT14.1 s1.5 s
Load timeN/A63.9 s
Memory usage7.8 GB48.3 GB
Memory %33%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Speed
9/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

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-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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