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granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
74 vs 80
Hardware Fit
91 vs 63
Quality Score
66 vs 87

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.8-27b-claude…
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 qwen3.8-27b-claude…
Tokens/sec18.824.0
First chunkN/A20 ms
TTFT308 ms4.5 s
Load time0.6 sN/A
Memory usage13.0 GB15.7 GB
Memory %41%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed
27/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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