llama-3.2-3b-instruct

llama · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 20

Hardware Fit

100 vs 65

Quality Score

60 vs 0

Hardware

llama-3.2-3b-instr… mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama-3.2-3b-instr… mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec48.25.1

TTFT265 ms2.0 s

Load time0.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

8/40

TTFT

27/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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