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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 26
Hardware Fit
94 vs 63
Quality Score
70 vs 10

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.29.5
First chunk285 ms1099 ms
TTFT285 ms1.1 s
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.6 GB16.3 GB
Memory %24%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest