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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 34
Hardware Fit
65 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 6

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-250m:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx microllm-250m:latest
Tokens/sec14.3291.6
First chunk24 ms50 ms
TTFT13.4 s79 ms
Load time13.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.6 GB
Memory %10%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

microllm-250m:latest

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

Quality

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

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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