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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 72
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral:latest
MachineMac miniMac Mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral:latest
Tokens/sec16.754.3
First chunk23 msN/A
TTFT14.1 s124 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage7.8 GB9.9 GB
Memory %33%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

mistral:latest

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

mistral:latest

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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