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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
59 vs 89
Hardware Fit
65 vs 95
Quality Score
57 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:26b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM24 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec14.348.3
First chunk24 ms346 ms
TTFT13.4 s346 ms
Load time13.3 s4.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB36.1 GB
Memory %10%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gemma4:26b

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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