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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 70
Hardware Fit
51 vs 94
Quality Score
81 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b mistral:7b
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 mistral:7b
Tokens/sec14.422.5
First chunk4 ms252 ms
TTFT824 ms252 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage48.3 GB10.1 GB
Memory %151%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

mistral:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest