mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score

74 vs 66

Hardware Fit

66 vs 63

Quality Score

78 vs 67

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… deepseek-r1:7b

MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

mistralai/magistra… deepseek-r1:7b

Tokens/sec7.935.6

First chunk1356 ms224 ms

TTFT1.4 s7.5 s

Load timeN/A7.7 s

Memory usage13.2 GB4.6 GB

Memory %41%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

6/30

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

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Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

10/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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