mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 66

Hardware Fit

66 vs 87

Quality Score

78 vs 57

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… granite-3.3-2b-ins…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… granite-3.3-2b-ins…

Tokens/sec7.918.3

First chunk1356 ms541 ms

TTFT1.4 s541 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB4.7 GB

Memory %41%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed

37/50

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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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