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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 74
Hardware Fit
65 vs 100
Quality Score
0 vs 63

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec5.144.1
TTFT2.0 s178 ms
Load time0.0 s0.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.0 GB
Memory %0%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed
8/40
TTFT
27/30
Memory
30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed
40/40
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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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