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qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 58
Hardware Fit
59 vs 68
Quality Score
72 vs 54

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700KApple M4
Cores2410
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec34.416.7
First chunk1991 ms23 ms
TTFT2.0 s14.1 s
Load time40.6 sN/A
Memory usage5.0 GB7.8 GB
Memory %8%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
9/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest