orca-mini:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score

47 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 85

Quality Score

24 vs 78

Hardware

orca-mini:3b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Cores1080

RAM32 GB252 GB

GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

orca-mini:3b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec30.665.1

First chunkN/A289 ms

TTFT126 ms4.2 s

Load time0.4 s4.6 s

Memory usage2.6 GB5.6 GB

Memory %8%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

orca-mini:3b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

3/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate 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