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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
77 vs 82
Hardware Fit
67 vs 93
Quality Score
81 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec20.346.8
First chunk4216 ms174 ms
TTFT4.2 s174 ms
Load timeN/A5.9 s
Memory usage5.6 GB16.2 GB
Memory %9%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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