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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Gemma4-26B:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
77 vs 90
Hardware Fit
67 vs 89
Quality Score
81 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Gemma4-26B:26b
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1432
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Gemma4-26B:26b
Tokens/sec20.339.2
First chunk4216 ms1484 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.5 s
Load timeN/A42.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB17.0 GB
Memory %9%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Gemma4-26B:26b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
23/30

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

Gemma4-26B:26b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest