qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

34 vs 68

Hardware Fit

58 vs 87

Quality Score

23 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest nous-hermes2:latest

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec13.315.9

First chunk438 msN/A

TTFT19.8 s345 ms

Load time0.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage8.0 GB6.6 GB

Memory %50%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/50

TTFT

30/20

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest