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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 64
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
73 vs 48

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… phi3:3.8b
MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM31 GB32 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M4
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… phi3:3.8b
Tokens/sec35.642.0
First chunk52 msN/A
TTFT256 ms142 ms
Load timeN/A1.1 s
Memory usage8.6 GB16.0 GB
Memory %28%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

phi3:3.8b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

phi3:3.8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
10/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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