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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
77 vs 20
Hardware Fit
67 vs 37
Quality Score
81 vs 12

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec20.310.6
First chunk4216 ms358 ms
TTFT4.2 s13.7 s
Load timeN/A10.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB39.7 GB
Memory %9%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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