mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

72 vs 60

Hardware Fit

95 vs 90

Quality Score

62 vs 47

Hardware

mistral:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.034.6

First chunkN/A5314 ms

TTFT261 ms5.3 s

Load time0.7 s5.1 s

Memory usage10.1 GB1.1 GB

Memory %32%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

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-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

4/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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