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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 75
Hardware Fit
65 vs 79
Quality Score
57 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi4:14b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi4:14b
Tokens/sec14.311.0
First chunk24 msN/A
TTFT13.4 s532 ms
Load time13.3 s0.7 s
Memory usage2.5 GB13.4 GB
Memory %10%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

phi4:14b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
30/20
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

phi4:14b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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