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openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
95 vs 65
Hardware Fit
99 vs 96
Quality Score
93 vs 52

Hardware

openai/gpt-oss-20b starling-lm:7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

openai/gpt-oss-20b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec29.323.8
First chunk21 ms232 ms
TTFT1.8 s232 ms
Load time18.5 s0.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB5.3 GB
Memory %0%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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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