mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 48

Hardware Fit

95 vs 53

Quality Score

62 vs 45

Hardware

mistral:7b qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

mistral:7b qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec22.011.3

TTFT261 ms9.2 s

Load time0.7 s0.1 s

Memory usage10.1 GB7.2 GB

Memory %32%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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