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microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
34 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
6 vs 74

Hardware

microllm-250m:latest qwen3:8b
MachineMac mini—
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1224
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microllm-250m:latest qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec291.648.5
First chunk50 ms202 ms
TTFT79 ms4.3 s
Load time0.0 s4.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB5.5 GB
Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microllm-250m:latest

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

qwen3:8b

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

Quality

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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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