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lmstudio-community/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 59
Hardware Fit
56 vs 65
Quality Score
91 vs 57

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineDocker ContainerMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M4
Cores1610
RAM15 GB24 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.914.3
First chunk145 ms24 ms
TTFT4.4 s13.4 s
Load time48.3 s13.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.5 GB
Memory %37%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/gemm…

Speed
18/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

lmstudio-community/gemm…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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