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.

Aug 1, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score

77 vs 65

Hardware Fit

100 vs 38

Quality Score

67 vs 76

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Cores1464

RAM64 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4 ProMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.33.4

First chunk277 ms4210 ms

TTFT277 ms4.2 s

Load timeN/A45.1 s

Memory usage4.2 GB22.0 GB

Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed

3/50

TTFT

5/20

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

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest