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qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 84
Quality Score
67 vs 79

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec47.220.4
First chunkN/A3034 ms
TTFT168 ms3.0 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage4.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %13%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

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

qwen3.5-9b

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

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest