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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
80 vs 80
Hardware Fit
80 vs 85
Quality Score
80 vs 78

Hardware

granite4.2:3b qwen3:8b
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 qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec46.865.1
First chunk135 ms289 ms
TTFT135 ms4.2 s
Load time0.0 s4.6 s
Memory usage12.7 GB5.6 GB
Memory %79%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest