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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Kimi-48B:48B

OLLAMA GGUF

kimi-linear · 49.1B · unknown

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score
63 vs 90
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
49 vs 88

Hardware

starling-lm:7b Kimi-48B:48B
MachineMacBook AirHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1020
RAM32 GB55 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b Kimi-48B:48B
Tokens/sec23.762.7
First chunkN/A397 ms
TTFT234 ms397 ms
Load time0.4 s16.8 s
Memory usage5.3 GB25.5 GB
Memory %17%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

Kimi-48B:48B

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

Kimi-48B:48B

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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