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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
81 vs 53
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
73 vs 38

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineASUSLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores124
RAM31 GB16 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSNobara Linux 43Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archx64x64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec35.613.2
First chunk52 ms1339 ms
TTFT256 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage8.6 GB0.4 GB
Memory %28%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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