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granite3.1-dense:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 8

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b starcoder2:7b
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 starcoder2:7b
Tokens/sec54.623.8
First chunkN/AN/A
TTFT121 ms251 ms
Load time0.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.6 GB6.3 GB
Memory %18%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

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

starcoder2:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
2/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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