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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
77 vs 89
Hardware Fit
67 vs 96
Quality Score
81 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1416
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.348.5
First chunk4216 ms39 ms
TTFT4.2 s283 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB13.7 GB
Memory %9%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
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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