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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 58
Hardware Fit
75 vs 68
Quality Score
78 vs 54

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700KApple M4
Cores2410
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.516.7
First chunk291 ms23 ms
TTFT291 ms14.1 s
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage8.8 GB7.8 GB
Memory %14%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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