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llama-3.2-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 65
Hardware Fit
79 vs 96
Quality Score
37 vs 52

Hardware

llama-3.2-1b-instr… starling-lm:7b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama-3.2-1b-instr… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec9.923.8
First chunk1668 ms232 ms
TTFT1.7 s232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %5%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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