mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
llama3.1:8b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
57 vs 46
Hardware Fit
100 vs 61
Quality Score
39 vs 40
Hardware
mlx-community/Llam… llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Llam… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec126.47.8
First chunk139 ms1625 ms
TTFT139 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A21.8 s
Memory usage0.3 GB5.2 GB
Memory %1%71%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
llama3.1:8b
Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30
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
llama3.1:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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