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granite3.1-dense:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
68 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
54 vs 89

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:2b gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:2b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec54.618.5
First chunkN/A752 ms
TTFT121 ms752 ms
Load time0.4 s6.1 s
Memory usage5.6 GB7.5 GB
Memory %18%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:2b

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest