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gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 72
Hardware Fit
65 vs 51
Quality Score
90 vs 81

Hardware

gpt-oss:20b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gpt-oss:20b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec17.114.4
First chunk705 ms4 ms
TTFT10.2 s824 ms
Load time23.1 sN/A
Memory usage13.1 GB48.3 GB
Memory %55%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
23/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

Quality

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest