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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

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
78 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 83
Quality Score
69 vs 78

Hardware

lmstudio-community… gemma3:12b
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… gemma3:12b
Tokens/sec46.012.7
First chunk245 msN/A
TTFT245 ms560 ms
Load timeN/A2.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB11.0 GB
Memory %7%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/meta…

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

gemma3:12b

Speed
23/50
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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
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