granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

80 vs 76

Hardware Fit

80 vs 51

Quality Score

80 vs 87

Hardware

granite4.2:3b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Tokens/sec46.88.9

First chunk135 ms3976 ms

TTFT135 ms4.0 s

Load time0.0 sN/A

Memory usage12.7 GB15.7 GB

Memory %79%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

10/30

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

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

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest