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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
59 vs 74
Hardware Fit
65 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM24 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec14.3249.5
First chunk24 ms80 ms
TTFT13.4 s659 ms
Load time13.3 s6.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.9 GB
Memory %10%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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