qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:latest
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
58 vs 23
Hardware Fit
68 vs 70
Quality Score
54 vs 3
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM24 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec16.79.8
First chunk23 ms1206 ms
TTFT14.1 s1.2 s
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB4.8 GB
Memory %33%65%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30
deepseek-r1:latest
Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30
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
deepseek-r1:latest
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest