granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 59

Hardware Fit

87 vs 94

Quality Score

57 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.345.3

First chunk541 ms2440 ms

TTFT541 ms2.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.7 GB0.0 GB

Memory %15%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

Memory

29/30

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

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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