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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 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
74 vs 77
Hardware Fit
91 vs 75
Quality Score
66 vs 78

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec18.830.5
First chunkN/A291 ms
TTFT308 ms291 ms
Load time0.6 s4.8 s
Memory usage13.0 GB8.8 GB
Memory %41%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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