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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 52
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
75 vs 31

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec109.1257.5
First chunk190 ms99 ms
TTFT190 ms99 ms
Load time4.3 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %18%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest