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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
71 vs 68
Hardware Fit
56 vs 91
Quality Score
78 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Apple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec5.342.2
First chunk1624 ms201 ms
TTFT1.6 s4.4 s
Load time4.0 s0.0 s
Memory usage7.9 GB3.8 GB
Memory %50%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak 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