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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 94
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
50 vs 91

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b…
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 qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b…
Tokens/sec46.344.8
First chunk167 ms405 ms
TTFT167 ms405 ms
Load time6.3 sN/A
Memory usage12.7 GB16.0 GB
Memory %79%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

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

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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