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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 76
Quality Score
73 vs 69

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM31 GB16 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M1 Pro
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec35.625.0
First chunk52 ms787 ms
TTFT256 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage8.6 GB7.1 GB
Memory %28%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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