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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gpt-oss:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Excellent

Oct 2, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
77 vs 83
Hardware Fit
67 vs 64
Quality Score
81 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss:120b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss:120b
Tokens/sec20.328.6
First chunk4216 ms422 ms
TTFT4.2 s2.5 s
Load timeN/A9.9 s
Memory usage5.6 GB60.1 GB
Memory %9%49%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:120b

Speed
30/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
25/30

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-oss:120b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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