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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
81 vs 87
Hardware Fit
84 vs 80
Quality Score
79 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b nemotron-3.5-light…
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b nemotron-3.5-light…
Tokens/sec20.484.1
First chunk3034 ms371 ms
TTFT3.0 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB24.9 GB
Memory %17%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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