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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q4_K_XL

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Global Score

77 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 77

Quality Score

67 vs 93

Hardware

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MachineMac miniASUS

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Cores1416

RAM64 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Raphael

OSmacOS 15.7.4cachyos rolling

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.3169.2

First chunk277 ms5 ms

TTFT277 ms122 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.2 GB26.0 GB

Memory %7%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

7/30

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

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

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