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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 77
Hardware Fit
81 vs 67
Quality Score
82 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec30.820.3
First chunk195 ms4216 ms
TTFT195 ms4.2 s
Load time6.8 sN/A
Memory usage18.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest