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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
73 vs 54

Hardware

llama3.1:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14400FApple M4
Cores1610
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec70.277.3
First chunk58 ms177 ms
TTFT58 ms177 ms
Load time4.1 sN/A
Memory usage4.9 GB1.2 GB
Memory %15%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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