qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

gemma2:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 76

Hardware Fit

82 vs 89

Quality Score

41 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx gemma2:9b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M2Apple M4

Cores810

RAM8 GB32 GB

GPUApple M2Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx gemma2:9b

Tokens/sec24.717.5

First chunk302 msN/A

TTFT7.4 s347 ms

Load time3.2 s0.8 s

Memory usage3.8 GB8.2 GB

Memory %47%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

gemma2:9b

Speed

29/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak 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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest