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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-small:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 75
Hardware Fit
65 vs 64
Quality Score
57 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral-small:24b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
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 mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec14.314.3
First chunk24 ms327 ms
TTFT13.4 s327 ms
Load time13.3 s12.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB18.5 GB
Memory %10%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

mistral-small:24b

Speed
14/50
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

mistral-small:24b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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