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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
59 vs 74
Hardware Fit
80 vs 99
Quality Score
50 vs 63

Hardware

granite4.2:3b llama3.2:3b
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 llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec46.321.1
First chunk167 ms1032 ms
TTFT167 ms1.0 s
Load time6.3 s8.4 s
Memory usage12.7 GB2.4 GB
Memory %79%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

llama3.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest