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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
74 vs 67
Hardware Fit
66 vs 77
Quality Score
78 vs 63

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:3b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores108
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec7.910.0
First chunk1356 ms1166 ms
TTFT1.4 s1.2 s
Load timeN/A6.8 s
Memory usage13.2 GB3.8 GB
Memory %41%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed
27/50
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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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