meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 22

Hardware Fit

95 vs 50

Quality Score

68 vs 10

Hardware

meta-llama-3.1-8b-… deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec21.611.4

TTFT512 ms30.0 s

Load time0.0 s1.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB16.5 GB

Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

meta-llama-3.1-8b-instr…

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

meta-llama-3.1-8b-instr…

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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