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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:31b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 31.3B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
77 vs 66
Hardware Fit
67 vs 40
Quality Score
81 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:31b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:31b
Tokens/sec20.310.7
First chunk4216 ms983 ms
TTFT4.2 s20.3 s
Load timeN/A8.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB21.4 GB
Memory %9%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gemma4:31b

Speed
10/50
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

gemma4:31b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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