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text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

ornith-1.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 69
Hardware Fit
94 vs 95
Quality Score
44 vs 58

Hardware

text-embedding-nom… ornith-1.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

text-embedding-nom… ornith-1.5:9b
Tokens/sec45.322.2
First chunk2440 ms341 ms
TTFT2.4 s341 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %0%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
Memory
29/30

ornith-1.5:9b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

ornith-1.5:9b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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