qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3:30b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Global Score
59 vs 86
Hardware Fit
65 vs 98
Quality Score
57 vs 81
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM24 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:30b
Tokens/sec14.3204.8
First chunk24 ms96 ms
TTFT13.4 s674 ms
Load time13.3 s5.2 s
Memory usage2.5 GB20.5 GB
Memory %10%43%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3:30b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
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
qwen3:30b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest