qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 80

Hardware Fit

81 vs 83

Quality Score

43 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx gemma3:12b

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 gemma3:12b

Tokens/sec25.212.7

First chunk341 msN/A

TTFT6.3 s560 ms

Load time3.4 s2.8 s

Memory usage8.4 GB11.0 GB

Memory %52%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

24/30

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest