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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-50m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 49.31M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
47 vs 28
Hardware Fit
67 vs 80
Quality Score
38 vs 5

Hardware

qwen3:8b microllm-50m:latest
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b microllm-50m:latest
Tokens/sec18.71000000.0
First chunkN/A50 ms
TTFT12.1 s30.0 s
Load time1.2 s0.3 s
Memory usage9.5 GB0.1 GB
Memory %30%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

microllm-50m:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

microllm-50m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
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

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