mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 39

Hardware Fit

86 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 13

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b starcoder2:3b

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 starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec14.649.4

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT371 ms155 ms

Load time1.0 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.3 GB3.0 GB

Memory %42%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:3b

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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

2/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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