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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score
59 vs 52
Hardware Fit
65 vs 69
Quality Score
57 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX
Cores1024
RAM24 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
Tokens/sec14.329.4
First chunk24 ms593 ms
TTFT13.4 s593 ms
Load time13.3 s14.2 s
Memory usage2.5 GB42.6 GB
Memory %10%67%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
16/30

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-a3b-q4_…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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