mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 55

Hardware Fit

86 vs 100

Quality Score

65 vs 36

Hardware

mistral-nemo:12b phi-3.5-mini-instr…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.643.4

First chunkN/A359 ms

TTFT371 ms359 ms

Load time1.0 sN/A

Memory usage13.3 GB2.0 GB

Memory %42%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

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

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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