qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 4.33B · unknown
Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
77 vs 66
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 52
Hardware
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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
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Tokens/sec20.326.5
First chunk4216 ms447 ms
TTFT4.2 s447 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB4.8 GB
Memory %9%30%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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