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gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 65
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
30 vs 52

Hardware

gemma3:270m starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M3 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM36 GB32 GB
GPUApple M3 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.5macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:270m starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec239.223.8
First chunk127 ms232 ms
TTFT127 ms232 ms
Load time0.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage0.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %2%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:270m

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

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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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