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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-4-12b-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 12B · Q4_0

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 92
Hardware Fit
65 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 89

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.390.7
First chunk24 ms26 ms
TTFT13.4 s127 ms
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB6.7 GB
Memory %10%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

google/gemma-4-12b-qat

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

google/gemma-4-12b-qat

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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