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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
73 vs 63

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec70.223.1
First chunk58 ms3279 ms
TTFT58 ms3.3 s
Load time4.1 sN/A
Memory usage4.9 GB2.9 GB
Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest