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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-instruct:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
59 vs 93
Hardware Fit
65 vs 97
Quality Score
57 vs 91

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.3100.0
First chunk24 ms1275 ms
TTFT13.4 s1.3 s
Load time13.3 s23.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB21.0 GB
Memory %10%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest