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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 6, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score

77 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 63

Quality Score

67 vs 88

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Cores1480

RAM64 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.317.2

First chunk277 ms845 ms

TTFT277 ms845 ms

Load timeN/A103.1 s

Memory usage4.2 GB21.9 GB

Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

17/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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