llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

46 vs 67

Hardware Fit

61 vs 100

Quality Score

40 vs 53

Hardware

llama3.1:8b cogito:3b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB32 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b cogito:3b

Tokens/sec7.845.6

First chunk1625 ms177 ms

TTFT1.6 s177 ms

Load time21.8 s0.8 s

Memory usage5.2 GB7.0 GB

Memory %71%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

cogito:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

cogito:3b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

9/10

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