qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

phi-1_5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

phi2 · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

77 vs 28

Hardware Fit

67 vs 66

Quality Score

81 vs 11

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi-1_5

MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores144

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi-1_5

Tokens/sec20.36.9

First chunk4216 ms3040 ms

TTFT4.2 s3.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage5.6 GB1.4 GB

Memory %9%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

29/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

30/30

phi-1_5

Speed

24/50

TTFT

16/20

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

phi-1_5

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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