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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

hf.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUF:Q5_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 7.52B · unknown

Excellent

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 88
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx hf.co/unsloth/gemm…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx hf.co/unsloth/gemm…
Tokens/sec20.328.3
First chunk4216 ms224 ms
TTFT4.2 s224 ms
Load timeN/A4.5 s
Memory usage5.6 GB3.6 GB
Memory %9%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

hf.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

hf.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E…

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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