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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 55
Hardware Fit
89 vs 99
Quality Score
65 vs 36

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b llama2:7b
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 llama2:7b
Tokens/sec28.925.1
First chunk338 msN/A
TTFT338 ms228 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage6.1 GB5.8 GB
Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

llama2:7b

Speed
39/50
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

llama2:7b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest