mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 35

Hardware Fit

94 vs 97

Quality Score

60 vs 8

Hardware

mistral:7b starcoder2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec22.523.8

First chunk252 msN/A

TTFT252 ms251 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.1 GB6.3 GB

Memory %32%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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