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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

78 vs 57

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

69 vs 39

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5:0.5b

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

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5:0.5b

Tokens/sec46.0165.0

First chunk245 msN/A

TTFT245 ms81 ms

Load timeN/A0.5 s

Memory usage4.6 GB1.7 GB

Memory %7%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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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