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stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
45 vs 58
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
22 vs 54

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec93.816.7
First chunkN/A23 ms
TTFT94 ms14.1 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.1 GB7.8 GB
Memory %3%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor 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