ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 74

Hardware Fit

99 vs 66

Quality Score

59 vs 78

Hardware

ministral-3:3b mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:3b mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec42.27.9

First chunk189 ms1356 ms

TTFT189 ms1.4 s

Load time1.2 sN/A

Memory usage7.0 GB13.2 GB

Memory %22%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

ministral-3:3b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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