starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

68 vs 67

Hardware Fit

97 vs 99

Quality Score

49 vs 45

Hardware

starling-lm:7b granite3.1-dense:2b

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 granite3.1-dense:2b

Tokens/sec23.753.4

TTFT234 ms122 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.3 GB5.6 GB

Memory %17%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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