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granite3.1-dense:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 47
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
54 vs 38

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen3:8b
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 qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec54.618.7
First chunkN/AN/A
TTFT121 ms12.1 s
Load time0.4 s1.2 s
Memory usage5.6 GB9.5 GB
Memory %18%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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