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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

microllm-50m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 49.31M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 28
Hardware Fit
67 vs 80
Quality Score
81 vs 5

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1412
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
Tokens/sec20.31000000.0
First chunk4216 ms50 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB0.1 GB
Memory %9%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

microllm-50m:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

microllm-50m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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