mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 57

Hardware Fit

95 vs 98

Quality Score

62 vs 39

Hardware

mistral:7b deepseek-coder:6.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b deepseek-coder:6.7b

Tokens/sec22.024.1

TTFT261 ms251 ms

Load time0.7 s0.9 s

Memory usage10.1 GB12.6 GB

Memory %32%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

6/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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