granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 78

Hardware Fit

87 vs 72

Quality Score

57 vs 81

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… gemma4:e4b-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:e4b-mlx

Tokens/sec18.326.9

First chunk541 ms222 ms

TTFT541 ms222 ms

Load timeN/A0.1 s

Memory usage4.7 GB15.4 GB

Memory %15%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

2/30

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:e4b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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