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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 35
Hardware Fit
81 vs 97
Quality Score
82 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b starcoder2:7b
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b starcoder2:7b
Tokens/sec30.823.8
First chunk195 msN/A
TTFT195 ms251 ms
Load time6.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage18.8 GB6.3 GB
Memory %15%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
2/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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