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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
63 vs 60
Hardware Fit
97 vs 90
Quality Score
49 vs 47

Hardware

starling-lm:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec23.734.6
First chunkN/A5314 ms
TTFT234 ms5.3 s
Load time0.4 s5.1 s
Memory usage5.3 GB1.1 GB
Memory %17%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest