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llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 59
Hardware Fit
99 vs 65
Quality Score
63 vs 57

Hardware

llama3.2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB24 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec21.114.3
First chunk1032 ms24 ms
TTFT1.0 s13.4 s
Load time8.4 s13.3 s
Memory usage2.4 GB2.5 GB
Memory %32%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest