qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
77 vs 66
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 51
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec20.385.4
First chunk4216 ms115 ms
TTFT4.2 s115 ms
Load timeN/A0.5 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.6 GB
Memory %9%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
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
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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