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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

77 vs 20

Hardware Fit

100 vs 37

Quality Score

67 vs 12

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3.5:27b

MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1432

RAM64 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec54.310.6

First chunk277 ms358 ms

TTFT277 ms13.7 s

Load timeN/A10.8 s

Memory usage4.2 GB39.7 GB

Memory %7%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

9/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest