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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
58 vs 84
Hardware Fit
68 vs 99
Quality Score
54 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM24 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec16.7109.2
First chunk23 ms349 ms
TTFT14.1 s349 ms
Load timeN/A7.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB2.6 GB
Memory %33%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

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

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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