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qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 73
Hardware Fit
95 vs 64
Quality Score
87 vs 77

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b mistralai/devstral…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b mistralai/devstral…
Tokens/sec33.411.9
First chunk257 ms7 ms
TTFT257 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage4.3 GB19.7 GB
Memory %7%62%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
19/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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