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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 76
Hardware Fit
81 vs 89
Quality Score
43 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec25.219.5
First chunk341 ms328 ms
TTFT6.3 s328 ms
Load time3.4 s1.5 s
Memory usage8.4 GB10.6 GB
Memory %52%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
24/30

ministral-3:8b

Speed
39/50
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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest