llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

55 vs 66

Hardware Fit

99 vs 91

Quality Score

36 vs 55

Hardware

llama2:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama2:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec25.133.2

First chunkN/A7 ms

TTFT228 ms311 ms

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage5.8 GB0.5 GB

Memory %18%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama2:7b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama2:7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest