mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 47

Hardware Fit

95 vs 67

Quality Score

62 vs 38

Hardware

mistral:7b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec22.018.7

TTFT261 ms12.1 s

Load time0.7 s1.2 s

Memory usage10.1 GB9.5 GB

Memory %32%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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