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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q8_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
77 vs 86
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1416
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
Tokens/sec20.337.7
First chunk4216 ms120 ms
TTFT4.2 s120 ms
Load timeN/A8.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB8.4 GB
Memory %9%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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