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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
77 vs 77
Hardware Fit
67 vs 53
Quality Score
81 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:35b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1420
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec20.316.0
First chunk4216 ms719 ms
TTFT4.2 s719 ms
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB25.0 GB
Memory %9%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

qwen3.5:35b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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