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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
58 vs 72
Hardware Fit
68 vs 92
Quality Score
54 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM24 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec16.7120.7
First chunk23 ms93 ms
TTFT14.1 s1.5 s
Load timeN/A2.5 s
Memory usage7.8 GB5.8 GB
Memory %33%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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