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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
58 vs 71
Hardware Fit
68 vs 92
Quality Score
54 vs 62

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.759.8
First chunk23 ms12 ms
TTFT14.1 s2.4 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB29.7 GB
Memory %33%31%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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