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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 55
Hardware Fit
66 vs 99
Quality Score
78 vs 36

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama2:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama2:7b
Tokens/sec7.925.1
First chunk1356 msN/A
TTFT1.4 s228 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage13.2 GB5.8 GB
Memory %41%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

llama2:7b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
30/20
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

llama2:7b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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