Back to leaderboard

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 84
Quality Score
70 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec188.020.4
First chunk108 ms3034 ms
TTFT1.2 s3.0 s
Load time7.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %21%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
View qwen3:1.7b details | View qwen3.5-9b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest