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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 74
Hardware Fit
91 vs 84
Quality Score
81 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec30.251.8
First chunk499 ms10 ms
TTFT499 ms503 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage6.7 GB17.5 GB
Memory %11%73%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
14/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
13/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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