gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

68 vs 46

Hardware Fit

98 vs 61

Quality Score

55 vs 40

Hardware

gemma3:1b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

gemma3:1b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec39.47.8

First chunkN/A1625 ms

TTFT362 ms1.6 s

Load time0.3 s21.8 s

Memory usage1.3 GB5.2 GB

Memory %4%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:1b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

28/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

Quality

gemma3:1b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

12/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

1/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest