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granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
66 vs 81
Hardware Fit
87 vs 68
Quality Score
57 vs 87

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec18.316.4
First chunk541 ms5 ms
TTFT541 ms742 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage4.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %15%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed
37/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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