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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 64
Hardware Fit
65 vs 92
Quality Score
57 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.329.9
First chunk24 ms108 ms
TTFT13.4 s108 ms
Load time13.3 s3.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB8.9 GB
Memory %10%56%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
22/30

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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