Qwen3.5 9B
on M5 Max 36GB · Rapid-MLX
Summary
User reports Qwen3.5 9B at 115.5 t/s on a single Mac Studio with an M5 Max and 36 GB of unified memory. Setup is Rapid-MLX 0.16.1 with MLX 4-bit weights and MTP speculative decoding on the text-only lane, with image input disabled. The figure is the article's rounded single-stream decode rate, client-observed streaming decode-phase throughput rather than engine-native timing, and configured context capacity and KV precision are unknown.