qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 71

Hardware Fit

95 vs 86

Quality Score

72 vs 65

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:7b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec22.114.6

TTFT285 ms371 ms

Load time0.8 s1.0 s

Memory usage7.6 GB13.3 GB

Memory %24%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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