mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score

74 vs 73

Hardware Fit

66 vs 98

Quality Score

78 vs 62

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…

MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Cores1016

RAM32 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…

Tokens/sec7.961.4

First chunk1356 ms381 ms

TTFT1.4 s381 ms

Load timeN/A0.2 s

Memory usage13.2 GB12.2 GB

Memory %41%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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-Opus-Distil…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

0/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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