mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

61 vs 66

Hardware Fit

81 vs 83

Quality Score

48 vs 55

Hardware

mistral:7b phi3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b phi3:14b

Tokens/sec13.612.7

TTFT517 ms434 ms

Load time3.0 s0.9 s

Memory usage10.1 GB17.7 GB

Memory %32%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

21/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi3:14b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

phi3:14b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

7/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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