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granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
74 vs 84
Hardware Fit
91 vs 93
Quality Score
66 vs 80

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3:30b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b qwen3:30b-a3b
Tokens/sec18.892.7
First chunkN/A286 ms
TTFT308 ms1.5 s
Load time0.6 s15.3 s
Memory usage13.0 GB20.3 GB
Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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