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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

minimax-m2.7:cloud

OLLAMA GGUF

minimax

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 74
Hardware Fit
65 vs 34
Quality Score
57 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx minimax-m2.7:cloud
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx minimax-m2.7:cloud
Tokens/sec14.30.0
First chunk24 ms7588 ms
TTFT13.4 s11.4 s
Load time13.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.7 GB
Memory %10%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Speed
0/50
TTFT
4/20
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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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