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orca-mini:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 70
Hardware Fit
98 vs 93
Quality Score
37 vs 60

Hardware

orca-mini:7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.432.9
First chunkN/A3096 ms
TTFT219 ms3.1 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB2.5 GB
Memory %18%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:7b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest