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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

77 vs 94

Hardware Fit

100 vs 92

Quality Score

67 vs 95

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… gpt-oss:20b

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.4.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… gpt-oss:20b

Tokens/sec54.354.5

First chunk277 ms318 ms

TTFT277 ms2.9 s

Load timeN/A4.0 s

Memory usage4.2 GB16.4 GB

Memory %7%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gpt-oss:20b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

29/30

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

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