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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 80
Hardware Fit
65 vs 79
Quality Score
57 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec14.355.5
First chunk24 ms528 ms
TTFT13.4 s30.0 s
Load time13.3 s32.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB41.0 GB
Memory %10%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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