mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

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

50 vs 34

Hardware Fit

100 vs 21

Quality Score

29 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec93.66.1

First chunk166 ms7 ms

TTFT166 ms22.9 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB19.8 GB

Memory %2%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

Quality

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Reasoning

7/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

3/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

4/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest