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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Excellent

Oct 2, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 83
Hardware Fit
65 vs 64
Quality Score
57 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gpt-oss:120b
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 gpt-oss:120b
Tokens/sec14.328.6
First chunk24 ms422 ms
TTFT13.4 s2.5 s
Load time13.3 s9.9 s
Memory usage2.5 GB60.1 GB
Memory %10%49%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:120b

Speed
30/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
25/30

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-oss:120b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
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