qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score

59 vs 81

Hardware Fit

65 vs 96

Quality Score

57 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:8b

MachineMac miniASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Cores1020

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec14.3109.1

First chunk24 ms190 ms

TTFT13.4 s190 ms

Load time13.3 s4.3 s

Memory usage2.5 GB5.6 GB

Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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