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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 65
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
87 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3:14b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec24.023.8
First chunk300 ms232 ms
TTFT300 ms232 ms
Load time3.6 s0.4 s
Memory usage13.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %43%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
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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