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qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 67
Hardware Fit
67 vs 99
Quality Score
38 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3:8b 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

qwen3:8b granite3.1-dense:2b
Tokens/sec18.753.4
TTFT12.1 s122 ms
Load time1.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage9.5 GB5.6 GB
Memory %30%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/40
TTFT
6/30
Memory
30/30

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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