granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 81

Hardware Fit

87 vs 82

Quality Score

57 vs 81

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… gemma4:12b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite-3.3-2b-ins… gemma4:12b-mlx

Tokens/sec18.325.3

First chunk541 ms761 ms

TTFT541 ms7.7 s

Load timeN/A3.6 s

Memory usage4.7 GB7.1 GB

Memory %15%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

Quality

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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