mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Gemma4-26B:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

74 vs 92

Hardware Fit

66 vs 100

Quality Score

78 vs 89

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… Gemma4-26B:26b

MachineMacBook AirHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1020

RAM32 GB55 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… Gemma4-26B:26b

Tokens/sec7.961.3

First chunk1356 ms185 ms

TTFT1.4 s185 ms

Load timeN/A22.9 s

Memory usage13.2 GB16.4 GB

Memory %41%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Gemma4-26B:26b

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

Gemma4-26B:26b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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