granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

68 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 81

Quality Score

54 vs 80

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b qwen3.5:9b

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 qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec54.611.8

TTFT121 ms523 ms

Load time0.4 s2.9 s

Memory usage5.6 GB9.1 GB

Memory %18%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

21/40

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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