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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
77 vs 84
Hardware Fit
67 vs 99
Quality Score
81 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1412
RAM64 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec20.3109.2
First chunk4216 ms349 ms
TTFT4.2 s349 ms
Load timeN/A7.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.6 GB
Memory %9%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

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

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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