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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
55 vs 82
Hardware Fit
87 vs 81
Quality Score
41 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec68.230.8
First chunk3268 ms195 ms
TTFT3.3 s195 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB18.8 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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