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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

May 24, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U

Global Score
58 vs 76
Hardware Fit
68 vs 51
Quality Score
54 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:latest
MachineMac miniDell Inc. Inspiron 15 3530
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U
Cores1012
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:latest
Tokens/sec16.77.6
First chunk23 ms2037 ms
TTFT14.1 s2.0 s
Load timeN/A8.7 s
Memory usage7.8 GB18.9 GB
Memory %33%61%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:latest

Speed
13/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
20/30

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-coder:latest

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest