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

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 61
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
67 vs 44

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… dolphin-phi:2.7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… dolphin-phi:2.7b
Tokens/sec54.356.1
First chunk277 msN/A
TTFT277 ms108 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage4.2 GB2.2 GB
Memory %7%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
2/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest