mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:3.8b

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 64

Hardware Fit

86 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 48

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b phi3:3.8b

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 phi3:3.8b

Tokens/sec14.642.0

TTFT371 ms142 ms

Load time1.0 s1.1 s

Memory usage13.3 GB16.0 GB

Memory %42%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/40

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

phi3:3.8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

10/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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