starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score

63 vs 67

Hardware Fit

97 vs 77

Quality Score

49 vs 63

Hardware

starling-lm:7b llama3.2:3b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20U30029MB

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Cores108

RAM32 GB15 GB

GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]

OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starling-lm:7b llama3.2:3b

Tokens/sec23.710.0

First chunkN/A1166 ms

TTFT234 ms1.2 s

Load time0.4 s6.8 s

Memory usage5.3 GB3.8 GB

Memory %17%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed

27/50

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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