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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

stablelm · 1.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
59 vs 35
Hardware Fit
65 vs 61
Quality Score
57 vs 24

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx stablelm-2-zephyr-…
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx stablelm-2-zephyr-…
Tokens/sec14.36.5
First chunk24 ms3080 ms
TTFT13.4 s3.1 s
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB1.0 GB
Memory %10%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
22/30

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

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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