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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-4-e4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Global Score
59 vs 83
Hardware Fit
65 vs 96
Quality Score
57 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx google/gemma-4-e4b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PH
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
Cores1032
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610M
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx google/gemma-4-e4b
Tokens/sec14.335.9
First chunk24 ms9 ms
TTFT13.4 s182 ms
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB6.5 GB
Memory %10%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

google/gemma-4-e4b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

google/gemma-4-e4b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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