qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

58 vs 20

Hardware Fit

68 vs 37

Quality Score

54 vs 12

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b

MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec16.710.6

First chunk23 ms358 ms

TTFT14.1 s13.7 s

Load timeN/A10.8 s

Memory usage7.8 GB39.7 GB

Memory %33%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

9/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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