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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mistral-small:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
79 vs 75
Hardware Fit
98 vs 64
Quality Score
71 vs 80

Hardware

ministral-3:8b mistral-small:24b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1220
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

ministral-3:8b mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec41.414.3
First chunk257 ms327 ms
TTFT257 ms327 ms
Load time5.2 s12.0 s
Memory usage9.0 GB18.5 GB
Memory %38%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

mistral-small:24b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mistral-small:24b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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