granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 72

Hardware Fit

87 vs 77

Quality Score

57 vs 70

Hardware

granite-3.3-2b-ins… llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite-3.3-2b-ins… llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec18.321.5

First chunk541 ms368 ms

TTFT541 ms368 ms

Load timeN/A6.9 s

Memory usage4.7 GB12.9 GB

Memory %15%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

10/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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