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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

77 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 23

Quality Score

67 vs 84

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… GPT-120B:120b

MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1420

RAM64 GB55 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.316.8

First chunk277 ms11247 ms

TTFT277 ms12.2 s

Load timeN/A77.3 s

Memory usage4.2 GB61.6 GB

Memory %7%113%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

GPT-120B:120b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

2/20

Memory

0/30

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

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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