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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
59 vs 71
Hardware Fit
80 vs 56
Quality Score
50 vs 78

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec46.35.3
First chunk167 ms1624 ms
TTFT167 ms1.6 s
Load time6.3 s4.0 s
Memory usage12.7 GB7.9 GB
Memory %79%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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