llama2:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 72

Hardware Fit

99 vs 95

Quality Score

36 vs 62

Hardware

llama2:7b mistral:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama2:7b mistral:7b

Tokens/sec25.122.0

TTFT228 ms261 ms

Load time0.4 s0.7 s

Memory usage5.8 GB10.1 GB

Memory %18%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama2:7b

Speed

39/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama2:7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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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