ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 69

Hardware Fit

98 vs 50

Quality Score

71 vs 77

Hardware

ministral-3:8b mistralai/devstral…

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1210

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b mistralai/devstral…

Tokens/sec41.45.7

First chunk257 ms5007 ms

TTFT257 ms5.0 s

Load time5.2 sN/A

Memory usage9.0 GB13.2 GB

Memory %38%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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