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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
65 vs 71
Quality Score
57 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniHP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores1012
RAM24 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec14.314.3
First chunk24 ms869 ms
TTFT13.4 s869 ms
Load time13.3 s0.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB20.5 GB
Memory %10%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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-coder: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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