mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

74 vs 80

Hardware Fit

66 vs 63

Quality Score

78 vs 87

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.8-27b-claude…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM32 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec7.924.0

First chunk1356 ms20 ms

TTFT1.4 s4.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB15.7 GB

Memory %41%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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