llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

81 vs 77

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

73 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini

CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4 Pro

Cores1214

RAM31 GB64 GB

GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M4 Pro

OSNobara Linux 43macOS 15.7.4

Archx64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec35.654.3

First chunk52 ms277 ms

TTFT256 ms277 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage8.6 GB4.2 GB

Memory %28%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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