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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
77 vs 66
Hardware Fit
75 vs 91
Quality Score
78 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700KApple M5 Max
Cores2418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Apple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.533.2
First chunk291 ms7 ms
TTFT291 ms311 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage8.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %14%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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