granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

54 vs 84

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen2.5:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen2.5:14b

Tokens/sec54.611.2

TTFT121 ms539 ms

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage5.6 GB16.5 GB

Memory %18%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen2.5:14b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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