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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 72
Hardware Fit
51 vs 99
Quality Score
81 vs 61

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b mlx-community/gemm…
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 mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec14.486.3
First chunk4 ms253 ms
TTFT824 ms253 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage48.3 GB1.1 GB
Memory %151%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

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

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest