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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 94
Hardware Fit
51 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b openai/gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec14.440.7
First chunk4 ms824 ms
TTFT824 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage48.3 GB11.3 GB
Memory %151%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

openai/gpt-oss-20b

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

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
20/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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