mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 63

Hardware Fit

86 vs 98

Quality Score

65 vs 39

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b deepseek-coder:6.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral-nemo:12b deepseek-coder:6.7b

Tokens/sec14.624.1

TTFT371 ms251 ms

Load time1.0 s0.9 s

Memory usage13.3 GB12.6 GB

Memory %42%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

6/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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