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rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 72
Hardware Fit
93 vs 51
Quality Score
74 vs 81

Hardware

rnj-1:8b qwen3.5-9b
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

rnj-1:8b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec22.314.4
First chunk404 ms4 ms
TTFT404 ms824 ms
Load time3.7 sN/A
Memory usage8.3 GB48.3 GB
Memory %52%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

rnj-1:8b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

Quality

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
5/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest