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orca-mini:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
47 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
24 vs 80

Hardware

orca-mini:3b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:3b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec30.623.1
First chunkN/A358 ms
TTFT126 ms358 ms
Load time0.4 s3.6 s
Memory usage2.6 GB9.1 GB
Memory %8%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

orca-mini:3b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
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
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest