llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

81 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 65

Quality Score

73 vs 57

Hardware

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineASUSMac mini

CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4

Cores1210

RAM31 GB24 GB

GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M4

OSNobara Linux 43macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

llama-3.1-8b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec35.614.3

First chunk52 ms24 ms

TTFT256 ms13.4 s

Load timeN/A13.3 s

Memory usage8.6 GB2.5 GB

Memory %28%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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