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gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 63
Hardware Fit
83 vs 97
Quality Score
88 vs 49

Hardware

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

gpt-oss:20b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec24.323.7
First chunk529 msN/A
TTFT4.5 s234 ms
Load time11.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage13.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %55%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
23/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest