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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
77 vs 88
Hardware Fit
67 vs 80
Quality Score
81 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1416
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.376.7
First chunk4216 ms29 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB23.9 GB
Memory %9%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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