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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 MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 65
Hardware Fit
94 vs 99
Quality Score
60 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.528.5
First chunk252 ms393 ms
TTFT252 ms393 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage10.1 GB3.2 GB
Memory %32%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$ metrillm

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