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granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 79
Hardware Fit
80 vs 98
Quality Score
80 vs 71

Hardware

granite4.2:3b ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite4.2:3b ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec46.841.4
First chunk135 ms257 ms
TTFT135 ms257 ms
Load time0.0 s5.2 s
Memory usage12.7 GB9.0 GB
Memory %79%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite4.2:3b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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