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granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
74 vs 89
Hardware Fit
91 vs 97
Quality Score
66 vs 86

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec18.8130.2
First chunkN/A5 ms
TTFT308 ms135 ms
Load time0.6 sN/A
Memory usage13.0 GB26.6 GB
Memory %41%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Quality

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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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