google/gemma-3-4b

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 20

Hardware Fit

93 vs 65

Quality Score

66 vs 0

Hardware

google/gemma-3-4b mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-3-4b mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec22.25.1

TTFT1.9 s2.0 s

Load time0.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-4b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

28/30

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

8/40

TTFT

27/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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