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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-50m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 49.31M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 28
Hardware Fit
68 vs 80
Quality Score
54 vs 5

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
Tokens/sec16.71000000.0
First chunk23 ms50 ms
TTFT14.1 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage7.8 GB0.1 GB
Memory %33%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

microllm-50m:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

microllm-50m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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