granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

54 vs 33

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen2.5:0.5b

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 qwen2.5:0.5b

Tokens/sec54.6162.7

TTFT121 ms81 ms

Load time0.4 s0.5 s

Memory usage5.6 GB1.7 GB

Memory %18%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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