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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q5_K_XL

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
65 vs 47
Quality Score
57 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl
MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl
Tokens/sec14.35.6
First chunk24 ms19 ms
TTFT13.4 s5.6 s
Load time13.3 s12.5 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %10%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

Speed
10/50
TTFT
7/20
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

qwen3.5-9b@q5_k_xl

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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