granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

67 vs 69

Hardware Fit

99 vs 93

Quality Score

45 vs 53

Hardware

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

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:2b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec53.420.2

TTFT122 ms481 ms

Load time0.4 s3.4 s

Memory usage5.6 GB10.4 GB

Memory %18%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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