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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

lmstudio-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 78
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 69

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro
Cores814
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec24.746.0
First chunk302 ms245 ms
TTFT7.4 s245 ms
Load time3.2 sN/A
Memory usage3.8 GB4.6 GB
Memory %47%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor 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