stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

22 vs 54

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b granite3.1-dense:2b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b granite3.1-dense:2b

Tokens/sec93.854.6

TTFT94 ms121 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.1 GB5.6 GB

Memory %3%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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