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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

nemotron-3-nano:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 31.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 13, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
77 vs 87
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:la…
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProRadeon 8060S
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:la…
Tokens/sec20.359.9
First chunk4216 ms199 ms
TTFT4.2 s199 ms
Load timeN/A0.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB26.0 GB
Memory %9%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano: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

nemotron-3-nano:latest

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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