ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 72

Hardware Fit

99 vs 95

Quality Score

59 vs 62

Hardware

ministral-3:3b mistral:7b

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 mistral:7b

Tokens/sec42.222.0

First chunk189 msN/A

TTFT189 ms261 ms

Load time1.2 s0.7 s

Memory usage7.0 GB10.1 GB

Memory %22%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

mistral:7b

Speed

35/50

TTFT

30/20

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

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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