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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
74 vs 81
Hardware Fit
66 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 73

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama-3.1-8b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama-3.1-8b-instr…
Tokens/sec7.935.6
First chunk1356 ms52 ms
TTFT1.4 s256 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage13.2 GB8.6 GB
Memory %41%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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