granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 72

Hardware Fit

91 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 60

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b mistral:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b mistral:latest

Tokens/sec18.854.3

TTFT308 ms124 ms

Load time0.6 s0.0 s

Memory usage13.0 GB9.9 GB

Memory %41%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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