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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 58
Hardware Fit
89 vs 68
Quality Score
65 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec28.916.7
First chunk338 ms23 ms
TTFT338 ms14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage6.1 GB7.8 GB
Memory %10%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong 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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