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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
59 vs 67
Hardware Fit
65 vs 21
Quality Score
57 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
MachineMac miniGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
Tokens/sec14.311.8
First chunk24 ms4674 ms
TTFT13.4 s9.3 s
Load time13.3 s77.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB61.0 GB
Memory %10%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

GPT-120B:120b

Speed
15/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
2/30

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

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong 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