qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 75

Hardware Fit

100 vs 95

Quality Score

67 vs 62

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b mistral:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b mistral:7b

Tokens/sec47.222.0

TTFT168 ms261 ms

Load time0.5 s0.7 s

Memory usage4.0 GB10.1 GB

Memory %13%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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