qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

wizardlm2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

81 vs 59

Hardware Fit

84 vs 97

Quality Score

79 vs 43

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b wizardlm2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b wizardlm2:7b

Tokens/sec20.423.2

First chunk3034 msN/A

TTFT3.0 s264 ms

Load timeN/A0.6 s

Memory usage5.6 GB9.9 GB

Memory %17%31%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

wizardlm2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

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

wizardlm2:7b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

4/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Weak 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