qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

laguna-xs-2.1

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Aug 1, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

59 vs 84

Hardware Fit

65 vs 100

Quality Score

57 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx laguna-xs-2.1

MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx laguna-xs-2.1

Tokens/sec14.365.9

First chunk24 ms281 ms

TTFT13.4 s281 ms

Load time13.3 s9.9 s

Memory usage2.5 GB30.1 GB

Memory %10%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

laguna-xs-2.1

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

laguna-xs-2.1

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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