mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

69 vs 66

Hardware Fit

50 vs 91

Quality Score

77 vs 55

Hardware

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec5.733.2

First chunk5007 ms7 ms

TTFT5.0 s311 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB0.5 GB

Memory %41%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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