qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Global Score
77 vs 37
Hardware Fit
67 vs 73
Quality Score
81 vs 22
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores148
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec20.318.4
First chunk4216 ms593 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %9%4%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
43/50
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
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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