deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

55 vs 78

Hardware

deepseek-v2:16b mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-v2:16b mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec56.67.9

First chunkN/A1356 ms

TTFT239 ms1.4 s

Load time1.2 sN/A

Memory usage17.7 GB13.2 GB

Memory %55%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

10/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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