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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 90
Hardware Fit
89 vs 78
Quality Score
65 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec28.946.1
First chunk338 ms284 ms
TTFT338 ms3.9 s
Load timeN/A0.1 s
Memory usage6.1 GB10.8 GB
Memory %10%68%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
16/30

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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