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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
59 vs 66
Hardware Fit
65 vs 63
Quality Score
57 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec14.335.6
First chunk24 ms224 ms
TTFT13.4 s7.5 s
Load time13.3 s7.7 s
Memory usage2.5 GB4.6 GB
Memory %10%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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