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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
72 vs 87
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3-vl-4b-instruct
MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1412
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3-vl-4b-instruct
Tokens/sec28.971.6
First chunk338 ms5 ms
TTFT338 ms157 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage6.1 GB20.5 GB
Memory %10%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

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-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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