qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 36

Hardware Fit

65 vs 53

Quality Score

57 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.310.3

First chunk24 ms27 ms

TTFT13.4 s20.7 s

Load time13.3 s15.4 s

Memory usage2.5 GB1.0 GB

Memory %10%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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