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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

77 vs 93

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

67 vs 90

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… nemotron-3-nano

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.393.3

First chunk277 ms257 ms

TTFT277 ms257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.2 GB0.1 GB

Memory %7%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

nemotron-3-nano

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning

19/20

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest