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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
81 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
73 vs 81

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14400FApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec70.220.3
First chunk58 ms4216 ms
TTFT58 ms4.2 s
Load time4.1 sN/A
Memory usage4.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest