mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

20 vs 74

Hardware Fit

65 vs 91

Quality Score

0 vs 66

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… granite3.1-dense:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… granite3.1-dense:8b

Tokens/sec5.118.8

TTFT2.0 s308 ms

Load time0.0 s0.6 s

Memory usage0.0 GB13.0 GB

Memory %0%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

8/40

TTFT

27/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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