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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 84
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
80 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx nvidia/nemotron-3-…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx nvidia/nemotron-3-…
Tokens/sec25.047.9
First chunk357 ms465 ms
TTFT357 ms465 ms
Load time3.8 sN/A
Memory usage8.4 GB16.6 GB
Memory %52%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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