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stablelm2:1.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
45 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
22 vs 81

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec93.830.2
First chunkN/A499 ms
TTFT94 ms499 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.1 GB6.7 GB
Memory %3%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

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

qwen3.5-9b

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

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

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest