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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

78 vs 34

Hardware Fit

100 vs 58

Quality Score

69 vs 23

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5:latest

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen3.5:latest

Tokens/sec46.013.3

First chunk245 ms438 ms

TTFT245 ms19.8 s

Load timeN/A0.2 s

Memory usage4.6 GB8.0 GB

Memory %7%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

Quality

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak 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