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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

minimax-m2.7:cloud

OLLAMA GGUF

minimax

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 74
Hardware Fit
67 vs 34
Quality Score
81 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx minimax-m2.7:cloud
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx minimax-m2.7:cloud
Tokens/sec20.30.0
First chunk4216 ms7588 ms
TTFT4.2 s11.4 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB0.7 GB
Memory %9%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Speed
0/50
TTFT
4/20
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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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