granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 77

Hardware Fit

87 vs 67

Quality Score

57 vs 81

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec18.320.3

First chunk541 ms4216 ms

TTFT541 ms4.2 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.7 GB5.6 GB

Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

29/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest