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tinyllama

OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 84
Quality Score
19 vs 79

Hardware

tinyllama qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

tinyllama qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec133.420.4
First chunk61 ms3034 ms
TTFT61 ms3.0 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %1%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

tinyllama

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
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

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