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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 61
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx dolphin-phi:2.7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx dolphin-phi:2.7b
Tokens/sec16.756.1
First chunk23 msN/A
TTFT14.1 s108 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage7.8 GB2.2 GB
Memory %33%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
2/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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