starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
mistral-small:24b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925
Global Score
63 vs 75
Hardware Fit
97 vs 64
Quality Score
49 vs 80
Hardware
starling-lm:7b mistral-small:24b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
starling-lm:7b mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec23.714.3
First chunkN/A327 ms
TTFT234 ms327 ms
Load time0.4 s12.0 s
Memory usage5.3 GB18.5 GB
Memory %17%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
mistral-small:24b
Speed
14/50
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
mistral-small:24b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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