granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

yi:6b

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

54 vs 67

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b yi:6b

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 yi:6b

Tokens/sec54.627.6

TTFT121 ms210 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.6 GB3.6 GB

Memory %18%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

yi:6b

Speed

40/40

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

yi:6b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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