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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
81 vs 61
Hardware Fit
84 vs 69
Quality Score
79 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.46.6
First chunk3034 ms2277 ms
TTFT3.0 s2.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %17%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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