granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score

66 vs 80

Hardware Fit

87 vs 85

Quality Score

57 vs 78

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Cores1080

RAM32 GB252 GB

GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

granite-3.3-2b-ins… qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec18.365.1

First chunk541 ms289 ms

TTFT541 ms4.2 s

Load timeN/A4.6 s

Memory usage4.7 GB5.6 GB

Memory %15%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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