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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

GPT-20B:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
77 vs 90
Hardware Fit
67 vs 79
Quality Score
81 vs 94

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1432
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
Tokens/sec20.336.6
First chunk4216 ms722 ms
TTFT4.2 s4.7 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB13.1 GB
Memory %9%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

GPT-20B:20b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
27/30

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

GPT-20B:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest