deepseek-v2:16b

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

69 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

55 vs 60

Hardware

deepseek-v2:16b mistral:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

deepseek-v2:16b mistral:latest

Tokens/sec56.654.3

TTFT239 ms124 ms

Load time1.2 s0.0 s

Memory usage17.7 GB9.9 GB

Memory %55%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

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

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