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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
63 vs 78
Hardware Fit
97 vs 86
Quality Score
49 vs 74

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec23.748.5
First chunkN/A202 ms
TTFT234 ms4.3 s
Load time0.4 s4.2 s
Memory usage5.3 GB5.5 GB
Memory %17%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate 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