mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

60 vs 66

Hardware

mistral:latest granite3.1-dense:8b

MachineMac MiniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

mistral:latest granite3.1-dense:8b

Tokens/sec54.318.8

TTFT124 ms308 ms

Load time0.0 s0.6 s

Memory usage9.9 GB13.0 GB

Memory %15%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:latest

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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