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ornith-1.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
69 vs 59
Hardware Fit
95 vs 63
Quality Score
58 vs 58

Hardware

ornith-1.5:9b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ornith-1.5:9b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.218.3
First chunk341 ms4 ms
TTFT341 ms530 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %45%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ornith-1.5:9b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

ornith-1.5:9b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest