granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 63

Hardware Fit

91 vs 97

Quality Score

66 vs 49

Hardware

granite3.1-dense:8b starling-lm:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

granite3.1-dense:8b starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec18.823.7

TTFT308 ms234 ms

Load time0.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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