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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 30B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 24, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
59 vs 92
Hardware Fit
65 vs 95
Quality Score
57 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
Tokens/sec14.324.8
First chunk24 ms11 ms
TTFT13.4 s735 ms
Load time13.3 s11.7 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.6 GB
Memory %10%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Speed
45/50
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

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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