qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

54 vs 77

Hardware Fit

81 vs 100

Quality Score

43 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.254.3

First chunk341 ms277 ms

TTFT6.3 s277 ms

Load time3.4 sN/A

Memory usage8.4 GB4.2 GB

Memory %52%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

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Speed

50/50

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

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Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest