mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

neural-chat:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 67

Hardware Fit

86 vs 96

Quality Score

65 vs 55

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b neural-chat: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 neural-chat:7b

Tokens/sec14.622.5

TTFT371 ms242 ms

Load time1.0 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.3 GB4.5 GB

Memory %42%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

neural-chat:7b

Speed

36/40

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

neural-chat:7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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