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mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
70 vs 48
Hardware Fit
94 vs 63
Quality Score
60 vs 41

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.56.6
First chunk252 ms3184 ms
TTFT252 ms3.2 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage10.1 GB1.0 GB
Memory %32%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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