solar:10.7b

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 71

Hardware Fit

87 vs 86

Quality Score

52 vs 65

Hardware

solar:10.7b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

solar:10.7b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec15.814.6

TTFT353 ms371 ms

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage6.6 GB13.3 GB

Memory %21%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

solar:10.7b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

solar:10.7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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