Benchmark result
qwen3.8-9b-distill-mlx@4bit on Apple M1 Max — 41.1 tok/s
Measured with LM Studio on November 2, 2026.
What the model built
Open full screen →The coding scenario asks for a playable game in a single HTML file. This is exactly what the model returned, unedited; the frame only adds a line that tells this page how tall it is.
How this run compares
2nd fastest of 2 runs of this model on Apple M1 Max · median 41.7 tok/s.
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- 142.2tok/s64.1LM Studio · 4bit
- 241.1tok/s67.7LM Studio · 4bitthis run
Reproduce this run
toolLM Studio
modelqwen3.8-9b-distill-mlx@4bit (4bit)
context8,192
clientv0.4.98+102
Set those in LM Studio, then:
llm-benchmark benchmark --model "qwen3.8-9b-distill-mlx@4bit" --tool "LM Studio"The client prompts for context length and thinking mode, and for the KV cache dtype on Unsloth Studio. Sampling is left at the model default — the values above are what the tool reported using, not overrides the client sent.