aya:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · F16

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 58

Hardware Fit

92 vs 68

Quality Score

55 vs 54

Hardware

aya:8b 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

aya:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec20.016.7

First chunkN/A23 ms

TTFT300 ms14.1 s

Load time0.9 sN/A

Memory usage6.0 GB7.8 GB

Memory %19%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

aya:8b

Speed

32/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

aya:8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest