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gemma2:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
76 vs 72
Hardware Fit
89 vs 89
Quality Score
71 vs 65

Hardware

gemma2:9b 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

gemma2:9b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec17.528.9
First chunkN/A338 ms
TTFT347 ms338 ms
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage8.2 GB6.1 GB
Memory %26%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma2:9b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma2:9b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest