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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 34
Hardware Fit
95 vs 21
Quality Score
80 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.16.1
First chunk358 ms7 ms
TTFT358 ms22.9 s
Load time3.6 sN/A
Memory usage9.1 GB19.8 GB
Memory %28%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed
12/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
9/30

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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
8/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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