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granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 57

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen2.5:1.5b
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 qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec54.684.1
TTFT121 ms119 ms
Load time0.4 s0.5 s
Memory usage5.6 GB2.6 GB
Memory %18%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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