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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
65 vs 52
Quality Score
57 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx unsloth/qwen3.5-9b…
MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx unsloth/qwen3.5-9b…
Tokens/sec14.36.5
First chunk24 ms13 ms
TTFT13.4 s4.1 s
Load time13.3 s10.8 s
Memory usage2.5 GB2.2 GB
Memory %10%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

Speed
11/50
TTFT
11/20
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

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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