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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-super:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 123.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 74
Hardware Fit
65 vs 50
Quality Score
57 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-super:l…
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx nemotron-3-super:l…
Tokens/sec14.321.8
First chunk24 ms420 ms
TTFT13.4 s2.2 s
Load time13.3 s12.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB79.5 GB
Memory %10%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-super:latest

Speed
23/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
17/30

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

nemotron-3-super:latest

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
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