llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

75 vs 20

Hardware Fit

93 vs 34

Quality Score

67 vs 14

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3.6:27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1012

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b qwen3.6:27b

Tokens/sec20.310.6

First chunkN/A1344 ms

TTFT315 ms30.0 s

Load time1.1 s0.2 s

Memory usage10.4 GB18.1 GB

Memory %33%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:27b

Speed

22/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest