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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-NVFP4-Q5K-mtp:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 35.5B · NVFP4

Excellent

Aug 23, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
65 vs 81
Quality Score
57 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B…
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 Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B…
Tokens/sec14.367.9
First chunk24 ms216 ms
TTFT13.4 s216 ms
Load time13.3 s12.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB24.1 GB
Memory %10%78%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-NVFP…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
11/30

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

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-NVFP…

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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