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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 84
Hardware Fit
65 vs 66
Quality Score
57 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec14.329.4
First chunk24 ms306 ms
TTFT13.4 s4.8 s
Load time13.3 s5.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB16.2 GB
Memory %10%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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