qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
deepseek-r1:7b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500
Global Score
77 vs 66
Hardware Fit
67 vs 63
Quality Score
81 vs 67
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
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 deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec20.335.6
First chunk4216 ms224 ms
TTFT4.2 s7.5 s
Load timeN/A7.7 s
Memory usage5.6 GB4.6 GB
Memory %9%29%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:7b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30
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
deepseek-r1:7b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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