qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

85 vs 76

Hardware Fit

95 vs 96

Quality Score

79 vs 63

Hardware

qwen2.5:7b mistral:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:7b mistral:latest

Tokens/sec22.222.5

TTFT285 ms257 ms

Load time0.8 s0.6 s

Memory usage7.6 GB10.1 GB

Memory %24%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

Speed

36/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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