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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

richardyoung/qwythos-9b-abliterated:Q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 65
Hardware Fit
67 vs 96
Quality Score
81 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx richardyoung/qwyth…
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1412
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx richardyoung/qwyth…
Tokens/sec20.325.3
First chunk4216 ms397 ms
TTFT4.2 s397 ms
Load timeN/A6.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB8.3 GB
Memory %9%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

richardyoung/qwythos-9b…

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

richardyoung/qwythos-9b…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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$ metrillm

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