llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

81 vs 36

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

73 vs 28

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec35.610.3

First chunk52 ms27 ms

TTFT256 ms20.7 s

Load timeN/A15.4 s

Memory usage8.6 GB1.0 GB

Memory %28%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest