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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 75
Hardware Fit
65 vs 93
Quality Score
0 vs 67

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec5.120.3
TTFT2.0 s315 ms
Load time0.0 s1.1 s
Memory usage0.0 GB10.4 GB
Memory %0%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
33/40
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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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