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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-fable-distill-heretic-ara-i1

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · IQ3_S

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score

77 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

67 vs 84

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Cores1416

RAM64 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.348.8

First chunk277 ms18 ms

TTFT277 ms276 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.2 GB11.7 GB

Memory %7%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

Quality

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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

qwen3.8-27b-fable-disti…

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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