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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 45
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 21

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.744.4
First chunk23 ms336 ms
TTFT14.1 s336 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage7.8 GB0.1 GB
Memory %33%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

mlx-community/quantized…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest