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phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 77
Hardware Fit
74 vs 67
Quality Score
78 vs 81

Hardware

phi4:14b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4:14b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.920.3
First chunk198 ms4216 ms
TTFT198 ms4.2 s
Load time10.3 sN/A
Memory usage14.7 GB5.6 GB
Memory %12%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4:14b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest