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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
58 vs 65
Hardware Fit
68 vs 92
Quality Score
54 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac miniiMac
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-4771
Cores108
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec16.719.6
First chunk23 ms690 ms
TTFT14.1 s690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage7.8 GB1.0 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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