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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 66
Hardware Fit
80 vs 87
Quality Score
80 vs 57

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec46.818.3
First chunk135 ms541 ms
TTFT135 ms541 ms
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage12.7 GB4.7 GB
Memory %79%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed
37/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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