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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
59 vs 79
Hardware Fit
80 vs 59
Quality Score
50 vs 87

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProDocker Container
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM16 GB15 GB
GPUApple M1 ProTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec46.39.3
First chunk167 ms21 ms
TTFT167 ms3.6 s
Load time6.3 s32.0 s
Memory usage12.7 GB1.8 GB
Memory %79%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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