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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 36
Hardware Fit
96 vs 53
Quality Score
80 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec88.610.3
First chunk306 ms27 ms
TTFT306 ms20.7 s
Load time7.0 s15.4 s
Memory usage8.1 GB1.0 GB
Memory %25%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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