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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 94
Hardware Fit
65 vs 92
Quality Score
57 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec14.354.5
First chunk24 ms318 ms
TTFT13.4 s2.9 s
Load time13.3 s4.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB16.4 GB
Memory %10%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
29/30

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-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest