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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Global Score
77 vs 82
Hardware Fit
67 vs 71
Quality Score
81 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniHP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores1412
RAM64 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec20.314.3
First chunk4216 ms869 ms
TTFT4.2 s869 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %9%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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