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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q4_K_XL

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Global Score
63 vs 93
Hardware Fit
97 vs 93
Quality Score
49 vs 93

Hardware

starling-lm:7b gemma-4-26b-a4b-it…
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Raphael
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starling-lm:7b gemma-4-26b-a4b-it…
Tokens/sec23.7166.9
First chunkN/A6 ms
TTFT234 ms113 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB16.2 GB
Memory %17%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

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

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

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-qat

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest