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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
58 vs 78
Hardware Fit
68 vs 51
Quality Score
54 vs 89

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
RAM24 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec16.77.1
First chunk23 ms997 ms
TTFT14.1 s997 ms
Load timeN/A45.4 s
Memory usage7.8 GB21.6 GB
Memory %33%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
6/50
TTFT
15/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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