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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
77 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 70
Quality Score
67 vs 89

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1432
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…
Tokens/sec54.321.2
First chunk277 ms468 ms
TTFT277 ms468 ms
Load timeN/A9.6 s
Memory usage4.2 GB17.7 GB
Memory %7%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed
20/50
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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
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

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