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mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 71
Hardware Fit
94 vs 99
Quality Score
60 vs 59

Hardware

mistral:7b ministral-3:3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b ministral-3:3b
Tokens/sec22.542.2
First chunk252 ms189 ms
TTFT252 ms189 ms
Load time0.7 s1.2 s
Memory usage10.1 GB7.0 GB
Memory %32%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

ministral-3:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

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
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