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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
77 vs 88
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
67 vs 87

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1432
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec54.342.5
First chunk277 ms442 ms
TTFT277 ms442 ms
Load timeN/A21.7 s
Memory usage4.2 GB17.9 GB
Memory %7%58%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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