mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

74 vs 58

Hardware Fit

66 vs 82

Quality Score

78 vs 48

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… qwen3:14b

Tokens/sec7.924.4

First chunk1356 ms294 ms

TTFT1.4 s7.9 s

Load timeN/A3.7 s

Memory usage13.2 GB13.8 GB

Memory %41%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:14b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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