phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

71 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 72

Quality Score

58 vs 45

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec36.218.6

First chunkN/A403 ms

TTFT190 ms10.2 s

Load time0.8 s4.3 s

Memory usage8.3 GB9.1 GB

Memory %26%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate 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