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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
78 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
69 vs 86

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec46.0129.4
First chunk245 ms49 ms
TTFT245 ms49 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage4.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %7%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/meta…

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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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