falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 73

Hardware Fit

98 vs 86

Quality Score

13 vs 65

Hardware

falcon:7b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon:7b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec24.314.6

TTFT256 ms371 ms

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage4.0 GB13.3 GB

Memory %12%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

falcon:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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