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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 7, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
59 vs 65
Hardware Fit
65 vs 29
Quality Score
57 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
RAM24 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.32.4
First chunk24 ms5833 ms
TTFT13.4 s5.8 s
Load time13.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB135.1 GB
Memory %10%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed
2/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest