orca-mini:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

61 vs 75

Hardware Fit

98 vs 95

Quality Score

37 vs 62

Hardware

orca-mini:7b mistral:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:7b mistral:7b

Tokens/sec24.422.0

TTFT219 ms261 ms

Load time0.4 s0.7 s

Memory usage5.8 GB10.1 GB

Memory %18%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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