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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
59 vs 84
Hardware Fit
80 vs 97
Quality Score
50 vs 79

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM16 GB47 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec46.3208.0
First chunk167 ms82 ms
TTFT167 ms1.3 s
Load time6.3 s1.5 s
Memory usage12.7 GB9.6 GB
Memory %79%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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