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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 4
Hardware Fit
100 vs 13
Quality Score
73 vs 0

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3.5:27b
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM31 GB24 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M4
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec35.63.5
First chunk52 ms1781 ms
TTFT256 ms52.0 s
Load timeN/A13.4 s
Memory usage8.6 GB21.3 GB
Memory %28%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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