mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 76

Hardware Fit

86 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 60

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b 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

mistral-nemo:12b mistral:latest

Tokens/sec14.654.3

TTFT371 ms124 ms

Load time1.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage13.3 GB9.9 GB

Memory %42%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

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

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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