mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 1.94B · BF16

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 76

Hardware Fit

66 vs 100

Quality Score

78 vs 66

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… hf.co/empero-ai/Qw…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec7.940.3

First chunk1356 ms101 ms

TTFT1.4 s101 ms

Load timeN/A2.7 s

Memory usage13.2 GB4.5 GB

Memory %41%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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