qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

77 vs 29

Hardware Fit

67 vs 86

Quality Score

81 vs 4

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:4b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE

Cores146

RAM64 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec20.317.9

First chunk4216 ms1010 ms

TTFT4.2 s6.4 s

Load timeN/A9.5 s

Memory usage5.6 GB3.0 GB

Memory %9%40%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

29/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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