qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

89 vs 59

Hardware Fit

95 vs 65

Quality Score

87 vs 57

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec33.414.3

First chunk257 ms24 ms

TTFT257 ms13.4 s

Load timeN/A13.3 s

Memory usage4.3 GB2.5 GB

Memory %7%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate 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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