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llama-3.2-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 81
Hardware Fit
79 vs 84
Quality Score
37 vs 79

Hardware

llama-3.2-1b-instr… qwen3.5-9b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama-3.2-1b-instr… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec9.920.4
First chunk1668 ms3034 ms
TTFT1.7 s3.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %5%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.5-9b

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

Quality

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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