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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

77 vs 79

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

67 vs 70

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3:1.7b

MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1412

RAM64 GB8 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3:1.7b

Tokens/sec54.3191.4

First chunk277 ms70 ms

TTFT277 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/A4.6 s

Memory usage4.2 GB1.6 GB

Memory %7%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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