qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS
Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
65 vs 98
Quality Score
57 vs 62
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM24 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
Tokens/sec14.361.4
First chunk24 ms381 ms
TTFT13.4 s381 ms
Load time13.3 s0.2 s
Memory usage2.5 GB12.2 GB
Memory %10%39%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30
Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
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
Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…
Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
0/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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