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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
46 vs 68
Hardware Fit
61 vs 100
Quality Score
40 vs 54

Hardware

llama3.1:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
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 lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec7.877.3
First chunk1625 ms177 ms
TTFT1.6 s177 ms
Load time21.8 sN/A
Memory usage5.2 GB1.2 GB
Memory %71%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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