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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score

77 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 81

Quality Score

67 vs 82

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Cores1432

RAM64 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Apple Silicon

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec54.330.8

First chunk277 ms195 ms

TTFT277 ms195 ms

Load timeN/A6.8 s

Memory usage4.2 GB18.8 GB

Memory %7%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

31/50

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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