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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
59 vs 79
Hardware Fit
65 vs 57
Quality Score
57 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1032
RAM24 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec14.310.7
First chunk24 ms341 ms
TTFT13.4 s341 ms
Load time13.3 s10.2 s
Memory usage2.5 GB39.7 GB
Memory %10%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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