starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
63 vs 33
Hardware Fit
97 vs 74
Quality Score
49 vs 15
Hardware
starling-lm:7b lmstudio-community…
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 lmstudio-community…
Tokens/sec23.711.5
First chunkN/A670 ms
TTFT234 ms670 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB3.0 GB
Memory %17%9%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
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
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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