qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
59 vs 33
Hardware Fit
65 vs 74
Quality Score
57 vs 15
Hardware
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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
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Tokens/sec14.311.5
First chunk24 ms670 ms
TTFT13.4 s670 ms
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB3.0 GB
Memory %10%9%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
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
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest