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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score
77 vs 90
Hardware Fit
67 vs 89
Quality Score
81 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX
Cores1424
RAM64 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
Tokens/sec20.343.1
First chunk4216 ms957 ms
TTFT4.2 s957 ms
Load timeN/A52.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB33.6 GB
Memory %9%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
46/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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