qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 2.6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 77

Hardware Fit

51 vs 100

Quality Score

81 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b gemma2:2b

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 gemma2:2b

Tokens/sec14.455.1

First chunk4 msN/A

TTFT824 ms152 ms

Load timeN/A0.6 s

Memory usage48.3 GB2.8 GB

Memory %151%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

gemma2:2b

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

gemma2:2b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest