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mistral-small:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
75 vs 62
Hardware Fit
64 vs 35
Quality Score
80 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.30.0
First chunk327 ms5548 ms
TTFT327 ms5.5 s
Load time12.0 sN/A
Memory usage18.5 GB2.9 GB
Memory %15%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-small:24b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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