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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
59 vs 68
Hardware Fit
65 vs 59
Quality Score
57 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:7b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1024
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:7b
Tokens/sec14.334.4
First chunk24 ms1991 ms
TTFT13.4 s2.0 s
Load time13.3 s40.6 s
Memory usage2.5 GB5.0 GB
Memory %10%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
9/30

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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