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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-1.7b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
77 vs 19
Hardware Fit
67 vs 64
Quality Score
81 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-1.7b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores144
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-1.7b
Tokens/sec20.35.9
First chunk4216 ms2111 ms
TTFT4.2 s2.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB1.2 GB
Memory %9%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-1.7b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-1.7b

Reasoning
0/20
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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