mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 72

Hardware Fit

86 vs 89

Quality Score

65 vs 65

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b aya-expanse: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 aya-expanse:8b

Tokens/sec14.619.7

First chunkN/A350 ms

TTFT371 ms350 ms

Load time1.0 s0.9 s

Memory usage13.3 GB6.2 GB

Memory %42%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

aya-expanse:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

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

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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