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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 77
Hardware Fit
51 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b yi:6b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b yi:6b
Tokens/sec14.427.6
First chunk4 msN/A
TTFT824 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage48.3 GB3.6 GB
Memory %151%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

yi:6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

yi:6b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest