qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

84 vs 63

Hardware Fit

95 vs 97

Quality Score

79 vs 49

Hardware

qwen2.5:7b 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

qwen2.5:7b starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec22.223.7

TTFT285 ms234 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.6 GB5.3 GB

Memory %24%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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