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mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 43
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
39 vs 19

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… tinyllama:1.1b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… tinyllama:1.1b
Tokens/sec126.4121.0
First chunk139 msN/A
TTFT139 ms82 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB0.7 GB
Memory %1%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
10/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest