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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

spark-x2.5-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

spark2_5 · 4B · Q4_K_M

Good

Sep 30, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Global Score
59 vs 77
Hardware Fit
65 vs 90
Quality Score
57 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx spark-x2.5-4b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx spark-x2.5-4b
Tokens/sec14.348.9
First chunk24 ms20 ms
TTFT13.4 s168 ms
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB9.4 GB
Memory %10%61%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

spark-x2.5-4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

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

spark-x2.5-4b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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