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mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 47
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
29 vs 38

Hardware

mlx-community/stab… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/stab… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec93.618.7
First chunk166 msN/A
TTFT166 ms12.1 s
Load timeN/A1.2 s
Memory usage0.7 GB9.5 GB
Memory %2%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/stablelm-…

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor 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