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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
77 vs 61
Hardware Fit
67 vs 69
Quality Score
81 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-6500
Cores144
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec20.335.7
First chunk4216 ms438 ms
TTFT4.2 s5.1 s
Load timeN/A40.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB5.5 GB
Memory %9%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
8/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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