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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
73 vs 51

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec70.228.5
First chunk58 ms393 ms
TTFT58 ms393 ms
Load time4.1 sN/A
Memory usage4.9 GB3.2 GB
Memory %15%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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