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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score

77 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 42

Quality Score

67 vs 87

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3-next:80b-a3b…

MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Cores1480

RAM64 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3-next:80b-a3b…

Tokens/sec54.33.9

First chunk277 ms2089 ms

TTFT277 ms2.1 s

Load timeN/A73.3 s

Memory usage4.2 GB46.9 GB

Memory %7%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Speed

3/50

TTFT

9/20

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

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

View mlx-community/meta… details | View qwen3-next:80b-a3b… details

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