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granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 70
Hardware Fit
91 vs 93
Quality Score
66 vs 60

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.832.9
First chunkN/A3096 ms
TTFT308 ms3.1 s
Load time0.6 sN/A
Memory usage13.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %41%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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