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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
77 vs 71
Hardware Fit
67 vs 92
Quality Score
81 vs 62

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1412
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec20.359.8
First chunk4216 ms5 ms
TTFT4.2 s2.4 s
Load timeN/A8.5 s
Memory usage5.6 GB0.4 GB
Memory %9%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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