mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

69 vs 26

Hardware Fit

50 vs 63

Quality Score

77 vs 10

Hardware

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-27b

Tokens/sec5.79.5

First chunk5007 ms1099 ms

TTFT5.0 s1.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB16.3 GB

Memory %41%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b

Speed

13/50

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

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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