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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
46 vs 80
Hardware Fit
61 vs 85
Quality Score
40 vs 78

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUCortex-A78AEIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores680
RAM7 GB252 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

llama3.1:8b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec7.865.1
First chunk1625 ms289 ms
TTFT1.6 s4.2 s
Load time21.8 s4.6 s
Memory usage5.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %71%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest