ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
mistral:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
76 vs 72
Hardware Fit
89 vs 95
Quality Score
71 vs 62
Hardware
ministral-3:8b mistral:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
ministral-3:8b mistral:7b
Tokens/sec19.522.0
First chunk328 msN/A
TTFT328 ms261 ms
Load time1.5 s0.7 s
Memory usage10.6 GB10.1 GB
Memory %33%32%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
ministral-3:8b
Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
mistral:7b
Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
ministral-3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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
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