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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 1.94B · BF16

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 66
Hardware Fit
66 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 52

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… hf.co/empero-ai/Qw…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… hf.co/empero-ai/Qw…
Tokens/sec7.940.2
First chunk1356 ms101 ms
TTFT1.4 s101 ms
Load timeN/A2.6 s
Memory usage13.2 GB4.7 GB
Memory %41%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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