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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
59 vs 77
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
50 vs 67

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen2.5:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM16 GB7 GB
GPUApple M1 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen2.5:3b
Tokens/sec46.321.4
First chunk167 ms1006 ms
TTFT167 ms1.0 s
Load time6.3 s6.4 s
Memory usage12.7 GB2.0 GB
Memory %79%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen2.5:3b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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