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qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 59
Hardware Fit
98 vs 65
Quality Score
72 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3-vl:30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M4
Cores2410
RAM47 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec208.914.3
First chunk102 ms24 ms
TTFT684 ms13.4 s
Load time0.1 s13.3 s
Memory usage22.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %47%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-vl:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak 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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