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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 72
Hardware Fit
93 vs 77
Quality Score
80 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b llama3.1:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM122 GB16 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec92.721.5
First chunk286 ms368 ms
TTFT1.5 s368 ms
Load time15.3 s6.9 s
Memory usage20.3 GB12.9 GB
Memory %17%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

Quality

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest