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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score

77 vs 52

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

67 vs 45

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG

CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Cores1424

RAM64 GB63 GB

GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU

OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.329.4

First chunk277 ms593 ms

TTFT277 ms593 ms

Load timeN/A14.2 s

Memory usage4.2 GB42.6 GB

Memory %7%67%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

33/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

16/30

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

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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