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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
59 vs 68
Hardware Fit
65 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores108
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
Tokens/sec14.321.8
First chunk24 ms499 ms
TTFT13.4 s499 ms
Load time13.3 s4.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB1.5 GB
Memory %10%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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