granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-v2:16b

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 69

Hardware Fit

91 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 55

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b deepseek-v2:16b

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 deepseek-v2:16b

Tokens/sec18.856.6

TTFT308 ms239 ms

Load time0.6 s1.2 s

Memory usage13.0 GB17.7 GB

Memory %41%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-v2:16b

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

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

10/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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