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qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 30B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 24, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
92 vs 59
Hardware Fit
95 vs 65
Quality Score
90 vs 57

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM31 GB24 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M4
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.814.3
First chunk11 ms24 ms
TTFT735 ms13.4 s
Load time11.7 s13.3 s
Memory usage0.6 GB2.5 GB
Memory %2%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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