starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

63 vs 84

Hardware Fit

97 vs 98

Quality Score

49 vs 78

Hardware

starling-lm:7b gemma4:e4b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

starling-lm:7b gemma4:e4b

Tokens/sec23.753.0

First chunkN/A214 ms

TTFT234 ms214 ms

Load time0.4 s3.1 s

Memory usage5.3 GB15.0 GB

Memory %17%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e4b

Speed

48/50

TTFT

20/20

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

gemma4:e4b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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