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mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
72 vs 46
Hardware Fit
95 vs 61
Quality Score
62 vs 40

Hardware

mistral:7b llama3.1:8b
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

mistral:7b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec22.07.8
First chunkN/A1625 ms
TTFT261 ms1.6 s
Load time0.7 s21.8 s
Memory usage10.1 GB5.2 GB
Memory %32%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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