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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

GPT-20B:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-14700F

Global Score
59 vs 94
Hardware Fit
65 vs 96
Quality Score
57 vs 93

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
MachineMac miniHP OMEN 35L VALORANT Limited Edition Gaming Desktop PC
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-14700F
Cores1028
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
Tokens/sec14.3181.0
First chunk24 ms596 ms
TTFT13.4 s1.3 s
Load time13.3 s10.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB11.9 GB
Memory %10%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

GPT-20B:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

GPT-20B:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest