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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 88
Hardware Fit
65 vs 91
Quality Score
57 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1032
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec14.342.8
First chunk24 ms434 ms
TTFT13.4 s434 ms
Load time13.3 s19.9 s
Memory usage2.5 GB17.9 GB
Memory %10%58%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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