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llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
81 vs 36
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
73 vs 8

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen36-distill-apex
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM31 GB64 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M5 Max
OSNobara Linux 43macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec35.655.2
First chunk52 ms210 ms
TTFT256 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage8.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %28%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest