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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 78
Hardware Fit
84 vs 72
Quality Score
79 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec20.426.9
First chunk3034 ms222 ms
TTFT3.0 s222 ms
Load timeN/A0.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB15.4 GB
Memory %17%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
2/30

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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