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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
59 vs 81
Hardware Fit
80 vs 68
Quality Score
50 vs 87

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec46.316.4
First chunk167 ms5 ms
TTFT167 ms742 ms
Load time6.3 sN/A
Memory usage12.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %79%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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