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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
77 vs 61
Hardware Fit
67 vs 85
Quality Score
81 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores148
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec20.327.0
First chunk4216 ms597 ms
TTFT4.2 s8.7 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %9%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest