qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 76

Hardware Fit

77 vs 89

Quality Score

35 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b gemma2:9b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b gemma2:9b

Tokens/sec18.917.5

First chunk316 msN/A

TTFT13.0 s347 ms

Load time3.7 s0.8 s

Memory usage5.9 GB8.2 GB

Memory %37%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

gemma2:9b

Speed

29/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

gemma2:9b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest