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qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
39 vs 71

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b gemma2:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b gemma2:9b
Tokens/sec165.017.5
First chunkN/AN/A
TTFT81 ms347 ms
Load time0.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage1.7 GB8.2 GB
Memory %5%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

gemma2:9b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

gemma2:9b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest