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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 73
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b mlx-community/Yi-1…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.429.1
First chunk3034 ms451 ms
TTFT3.0 s451 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %17%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

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

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest