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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 47
Hardware Fit
65 vs 51
Quality Score
57 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx deepseek-r1:70b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.34.7
First chunk24 ms557 ms
TTFT13.4 s557 ms
Load time13.3 s52.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB49.5 GB
Memory %10%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

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Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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