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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
81 vs 95
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
73 vs 96

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineASUSMac Studio
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M2 Max
Cores1212
RAM31 GB96 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M2 Max
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec35.680.4
First chunk52 ms46 ms
TTFT256 ms1.8 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage8.6 GB21.2 GB
Memory %28%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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