mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 70

Hardware Fit

95 vs 94

Quality Score

62 vs 54

Hardware

mistral:7b qwen2.5-coder: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 qwen2.5-coder:7b

Tokens/sec22.021.5

TTFT261 ms290 ms

Load time0.7 s0.8 s

Memory usage10.1 GB7.6 GB

Memory %32%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

34/40

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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