qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score

59 vs 67

Hardware Fit

65 vs 77

Quality Score

57 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx llama3.2:3b

MachineMac miniLENOVO 20U30029MB

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Cores108

RAM24 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]

OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx llama3.2:3b

Tokens/sec14.310.0

First chunk24 ms1166 ms

TTFT13.4 s1.2 s

Load time13.3 s6.8 s

Memory usage2.5 GB3.8 GB

Memory %10%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed

27/50

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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