mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 41

Hardware Fit

94 vs 100

Quality Score

60 vs 15

Hardware

mistral:7b smollm2:135m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b smollm2:135m

Tokens/sec22.5241.0

First chunk252 msN/A

TTFT252 ms39 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.1 GB0.6 GB

Memory %32%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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