llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

46 vs 52

Hardware Fit

61 vs 100

Quality Score

40 vs 32

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec7.8121.1

First chunk1625 ms106 ms

TTFT1.6 s106 ms

Load time21.8 sN/A

Memory usage5.2 GB0.7 GB

Memory %71%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest