qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-1_5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

phi2 · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

59 vs 28

Hardware Fit

65 vs 66

Quality Score

57 vs 11

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi-1_5

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 phi-1_5

Tokens/sec14.36.9

First chunk24 ms3040 ms

TTFT13.4 s3.0 s

Load time13.3 sN/A

Memory usage2.5 GB1.4 GB

Memory %10%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

phi-1_5

Speed

24/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

26/30

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

phi-1_5

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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