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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
59 vs 18
Hardware Fit
65 vs 53
Quality Score
57 vs 3

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM24 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec14.39.4
First chunk24 ms799 ms
TTFT13.4 s30.0 s
Load time13.3 s3.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB1.9 GB
Memory %10%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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