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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score

77 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

67 vs 50

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… llama3.2:1b

MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV

CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Cores1416

RAM64 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… llama3.2:1b

Tokens/sec54.3170.2

First chunk277 ms142 ms

TTFT277 ms142 ms

Load timeN/A3.2 s

Memory usage4.2 GB1.6 GB

Memory %7%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:1b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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