qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

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Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

59 vs 57

Hardware Fit

65 vs 61

Quality Score

57 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec14.330.3

First chunk24 ms205 ms

TTFT13.4 s8.7 s

Load time13.3 s5.6 s

Memory usage2.5 GB18.8 GB

Memory %10%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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