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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-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
77 vs 49
Hardware Fit
67 vs 54
Quality Score
81 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1416
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.321.6
First chunk4216 ms1505 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB22.7 GB
Memory %9%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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