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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
77 vs 74
Hardware Fit
67 vs 42
Quality Score
81 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-next:80b-a3b…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1480
RAM64 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.33.9
First chunk4216 ms2089 ms
TTFT4.2 s2.1 s
Load timeN/A73.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB46.9 GB
Memory %9%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
9/20
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-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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