starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
gemma4:12b
OLLAMA GGUFgemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M
Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925
Global Score
63 vs 86
Hardware Fit
97 vs 79
Quality Score
49 vs 89
Hardware
starling-lm:7b gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
starling-lm:7b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec23.727.5
First chunkN/A484 ms
TTFT234 ms484 ms
Load time0.4 s8.2 s
Memory usage5.3 GB9.3 GB
Memory %17%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
gemma4:12b
Speed
29/50
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
gemma4:12b
Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest