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nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
68 vs 80
Hardware Fit
87 vs 85
Quality Score
60 vs 78

Hardware

nous-hermes2:latest qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM32 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

nous-hermes2:latest qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec15.965.1
First chunkN/A289 ms
TTFT345 ms4.2 s
Load time0.4 s4.6 s
Memory usage6.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %21%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed
27/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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