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mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 77
Hardware Fit
86 vs 100
Quality Score
65 vs 67

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b yi:6b
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 yi:6b
Tokens/sec14.627.6
First chunkN/AN/A
TTFT371 ms210 ms
Load time1.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage13.3 GB3.6 GB
Memory %42%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

yi:6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

yi:6b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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