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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
59 vs 35
Hardware Fit
65 vs 45
Quality Score
57 vs 30

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1032
RAM24 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.316.7
First chunk24 ms781 ms
TTFT13.4 s30.0 s
Load time13.3 s19.9 s
Memory usage2.5 GB21.8 GB
Memory %10%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
15/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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