qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

vicuna:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 59

Hardware Fit

79 vs 97

Quality Score

49 vs 43

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b vicuna:7b

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 vicuna:7b

Tokens/sec22.123.4

First chunk601 msN/A

TTFT9.1 s242 ms

Load time4.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.2 GB5.8 GB

Memory %45%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

48/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

26/30

vicuna:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

4/20

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

vicuna:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest