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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3-Coder-30B:30B

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
58 vs 88
Hardware Fit
68 vs 91
Quality Score
54 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3-Coder-30B:30B
MachineMac miniGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3-Coder-30B:30B
Tokens/sec16.732.2
First chunk23 ms540 ms
TTFT14.1 s540 ms
Load timeN/A15.6 s
Memory usage7.8 GB17.7 GB
Memory %33%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Qwen3-Coder-30B:30B

Speed
41/50
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

Qwen3-Coder-30B:30B

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: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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