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qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
34 vs 89
Hardware Fit
58 vs 95
Quality Score
23 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec13.333.4
First chunk438 ms257 ms
TTFT19.8 s257 ms
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage8.0 GB4.3 GB
Memory %50%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest