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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 1, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score
59 vs 65
Hardware Fit
65 vs 38
Quality Score
57 vs 76

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0
Cores1064
RAM24 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.33.4
First chunk24 ms4210 ms
TTFT13.4 s4.2 s
Load time13.3 s45.1 s
Memory usage2.5 GB22.0 GB
Memory %10%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest