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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score

36 vs 82

Hardware Fit

53 vs 81

Quality Score

28 vs 82

Hardware

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MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Apple Silicon

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.330.8

First chunk27 ms195 ms

TTFT20.7 s195 ms

Load time15.4 s6.8 s

Memory usage1.0 GB18.8 GB

Memory %4%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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