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 29, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score

77 vs 83

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

67 vs 90

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Cores1416

RAM64 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.317.7

First chunk277 ms1244 ms

TTFT277 ms1.2 s

Load timeN/A20.5 s

Memory usage4.2 GB20.6 GB

Memory %7%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

19/50

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

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Reasoning

18/20

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

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest