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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

May 27, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor

Global Score
77 vs 73
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral:latest
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7B79
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor
Cores1412
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral:latest
Tokens/sec20.331.7
First chunk4216 ms102 ms
TTFT4.2 s102 ms
Load timeN/A14.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB4.8 GB
Memory %9%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

mistral:latest

Speed
50/50
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

mistral:latest

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest