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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
59 vs 72
Hardware Fit
80 vs 89
Quality Score
50 vs 64

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM16 GB252 GB
GPUApple M1 ProTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

granite4.2:3b qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec46.368.2
First chunk167 ms285 ms
TTFT167 ms2.0 s
Load time6.3 s42.4 s
Memory usage12.7 GB7.1 GB
Memory %79%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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