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qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
34 vs 46
Hardware Fit
58 vs 61
Quality Score
23 vs 40

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest llama3.1:8b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM16 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec13.37.8
First chunk438 ms1625 ms
TTFT19.8 s1.6 s
Load time0.2 s21.8 s
Memory usage8.0 GB5.2 GB
Memory %50%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
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