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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 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-14700F

Global Score
59 vs 66
Hardware Fit
65 vs 14
Quality Score
57 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
MachineMac miniHP OMEN 35L VALORANT Limited Edition Gaming Desktop PC
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-14700F
Cores1028
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
Tokens/sec14.310.1
First chunk24 ms6562 ms
TTFT13.4 s10.3 s
Load time13.3 s49.8 s
Memory usage2.5 GB61.5 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
10/50
TTFT
2/20
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
19/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate 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