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granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
74 vs 71
Hardware Fit
91 vs 56
Quality Score
66 vs 78

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec18.85.3
First chunkN/A1624 ms
TTFT308 ms1.6 s
Load time0.6 s4.0 s
Memory usage13.0 GB7.9 GB
Memory %41%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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