granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:latest

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

76 vs 77

Hardware Fit

91 vs 100

Quality Score

66 vs 61

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b llama3.2: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 llama3.2:latest

Tokens/sec18.898.9

TTFT308 ms125 ms

Load time0.6 s2.3 s

Memory usage13.0 GB22.1 GB

Memory %41%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.2: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

llama3.2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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