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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
73 vs 51

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec35.628.5
First chunk52 ms393 ms
TTFT256 ms393 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage8.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %28%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest