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starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 48
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 14

Hardware

starling-lm:7b smollm2:135m
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b smollm2:135m
Tokens/sec23.7245.0
TTFT234 ms31 ms
Load time0.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.3 GB0.6 GB
Memory %17%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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