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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 13, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
65 vs 90
Quality Score
57 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:14b
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C37
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1024
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4GameViewer Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 专业版 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec14.374.4
First chunk24 ms324 ms
TTFT13.4 s2.6 s
Load time13.3 s5.1 s
Memory usage2.5 GB9.0 GB
Memory %10%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest