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mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
73 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
62 vs 81

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5-9b
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

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec29.130.2
First chunk451 ms499 ms
TTFT451 ms499 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB6.7 GB
Memory %3%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

qwen3.5-9b

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

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest