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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 63
Hardware Fit
95 vs 97
Quality Score
80 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec23.123.7
First chunk358 msN/A
TTFT358 ms234 ms
Load time3.6 s0.4 s
Memory usage9.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %28%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor 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