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qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
34 vs 59
Hardware Fit
58 vs 65
Quality Score
23 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec13.314.3
First chunk438 ms24 ms
TTFT19.8 s13.4 s
Load time0.2 s13.3 s
Memory usage8.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %50%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest