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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 70
Hardware Fit
80 vs 94
Quality Score
50 vs 60

Hardware

granite4.2:3b mistral:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b mistral:7b
Tokens/sec46.322.5
First chunk167 ms252 ms
TTFT167 ms252 ms
Load time6.3 s0.7 s
Memory usage12.7 GB10.1 GB
Memory %79%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

mistral:7b

Speed
44/50
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

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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