llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

75 vs 76

Hardware Fit

93 vs 51

Quality Score

67 vs 87

Hardware

llama3.1:8b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Tokens/sec20.38.9

First chunkN/A3976 ms

TTFT315 ms4.0 s

Load time1.1 sN/A

Memory usage10.4 GB15.7 GB

Memory %33%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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