qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

59 vs 84

Hardware Fit

65 vs 98

Quality Score

57 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:e4b

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 Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:e4b

Tokens/sec14.353.0

First chunk24 ms214 ms

TTFT13.4 s214 ms

Load time13.3 s3.1 s

Memory usage2.5 GB15.0 GB

Memory %10%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e4b

Speed

48/50

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

gemma4:e4b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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