qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 35

Hardware Fit

89 vs 97

Quality Score

65 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b starcoder2:7b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec28.923.8

First chunk338 msN/A

TTFT338 ms251 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage6.1 GB6.3 GB

Memory %10%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest