granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

74 vs 85

Hardware Fit

91 vs 64

Quality Score

66 vs 94

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM32 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Tokens/sec18.813.6

First chunkN/A16 ms

TTFT308 ms558 ms

Load time0.6 s12.3 s

Memory usage13.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %41%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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