starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 45

Hardware Fit

97 vs 100

Quality Score

49 vs 22

Hardware

starling-lm:7b stablelm2:1.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec23.793.8

TTFT234 ms94 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.3 GB1.1 GB

Memory %17%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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