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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
62 vs 47
Hardware Fit
100 vs 53
Quality Score
46 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3:4b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec65.811.3
First chunk230 msN/A
TTFT230 ms9.2 s
Load time1.5 s0.1 s
Memory usage2.6 GB7.2 GB
Memory %8%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

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

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest