qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

54 vs 85

Hardware Fit

81 vs 64

Quality Score

43 vs 94

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM16 GB128 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Tokens/sec25.213.6

First chunk341 ms16 ms

TTFT6.3 s558 ms

Load time3.4 s12.3 s

Memory usage8.4 GB0.0 GB

Memory %52%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest