starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
llama3.1:8b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
63 vs 46
Hardware Fit
97 vs 61
Quality Score
49 vs 40
Hardware
starling-lm:7b llama3.1:8b
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 llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec23.77.8
First chunkN/A1625 ms
TTFT234 ms1.6 s
Load time0.4 s21.8 s
Memory usage5.3 GB5.2 GB
Memory %17%71%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
llama3.1:8b
Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30
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
llama3.1:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest