mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 47

Hardware Fit

96 vs 98

Quality Score

63 vs 13

Hardware

mistral:latest falcon:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:latest falcon:7b

Tokens/sec22.524.3

TTFT257 ms256 ms

Load time0.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.1 GB4.0 GB

Memory %32%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:latest

Speed

36/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

falcon:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

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

falcon:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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