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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 7, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
77 vs 65
Hardware Fit
67 vs 29
Quality Score
81 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1480
RAM64 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.32.4
First chunk4216 ms5833 ms
TTFT4.2 s5.8 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB135.1 GB
Memory %9%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed
2/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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