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dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 84
Quality Score
44 vs 79

Hardware

dolphin-phi:2.7b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

dolphin-phi:2.7b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec56.120.4
First chunkN/A3034 ms
TTFT108 ms3.0 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage2.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %7%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
2/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5-9b

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest