mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 71

Hardware Fit

66 vs 76

Quality Score

78 vs 69

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… gemma4:12b-mlx

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… gemma4:12b-mlx

Tokens/sec7.925.0

First chunk1356 ms787 ms

TTFT1.4 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A4.0 s

Memory usage13.2 GB7.1 GB

Memory %41%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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