vicuna:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 81

Hardware Fit

97 vs 84

Quality Score

43 vs 79

Hardware

vicuna:7b qwen3.5-9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

vicuna:7b qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec23.420.4

First chunkN/A3034 ms

TTFT242 ms3.0 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage5.8 GB5.6 GB

Memory %18%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

vicuna:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

vicuna:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest