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qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q5_K_XL

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
73 vs 89
Hardware Fit
47 vs 97
Quality Score
84 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineDocker ContainerMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM15 GB48 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec5.6129.4
First chunk19 ms49 ms
TTFT5.6 s49 ms
Load time12.5 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB20.5 GB
Memory %0%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

Speed
10/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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