mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

77 vs 68

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

67 vs 55

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… maternion/ling-3.0…

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

Cores1410

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… maternion/ling-3.0…

Tokens/sec54.372.1

First chunk277 ms175 ms

TTFT277 ms175 ms

Load timeN/A3.6 s

Memory usage4.2 GB5.9 GB

Memory %7%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

Quality

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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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