mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 70

Hardware Fit

96 vs 87

Quality Score

63 vs 59

Hardware

mistral:latest qwen3:1.7b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:latest qwen3:1.7b

Tokens/sec22.537.9

TTFT257 ms3.1 s

Load time0.6 s1.2 s

Memory usage10.1 GB4.9 GB

Memory %32%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:latest

Speed

36/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

17/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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