qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:31b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 31.3B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

59 vs 66

Hardware Fit

65 vs 40

Quality Score

57 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:31b

MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM24 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx gemma4:31b

Tokens/sec14.310.7

First chunk24 ms983 ms

TTFT13.4 s20.3 s

Load time13.3 s8.8 s

Memory usage2.5 GB21.4 GB

Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:31b

Speed

10/50

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

gemma4:31b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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