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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

78 vs 76

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

69 vs 66

Hardware

lmstudio-community… google/gemma-3-4b

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… google/gemma-3-4b

Tokens/sec46.039.4

First chunk245 ms468 ms

TTFT245 ms468 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.6 GB2.8 GB

Memory %7%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong 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