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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

77 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 86

Quality Score

67 vs 89

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… gemma4:12b-it-qat

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1412

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… gemma4:12b-it-qat

Tokens/sec54.330.0

First chunk277 ms686 ms

TTFT277 ms7.1 s

Load timeN/A5.4 s

Memory usage4.2 GB7.1 GB

Memory %7%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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