granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 43

Hardware Fit

91 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 19

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b tinyllama:1.1b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec18.8121.0

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT308 ms82 ms

Load time0.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %41%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest