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qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Gemma4-26B:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
54 vs 90
Hardware Fit
81 vs 89
Quality Score
43 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Gemma4-26B:26b
MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1032
RAM16 GB31 GB
GPUApple M1 ProAMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b-mlx Gemma4-26B:26b
Tokens/sec25.239.2
First chunk341 ms1484 ms
TTFT6.3 s1.5 s
Load time3.4 s42.1 s
Memory usage8.4 GB17.0 GB
Memory %52%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Gemma4-26B:26b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
23/30

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

Gemma4-26B:26b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest