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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 11, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
65 vs 93
Quality Score
57 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM24 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 44
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
Tokens/sec14.318.3
First chunk24 ms981 ms
TTFT13.4 s981 ms
Load time13.3 s8.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB4.9 GB
Memory %10%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

lfm2.5:latest

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lfm2.5:latest

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate 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