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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
63 vs 57
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 39

Hardware

starling-lm:7b gemma3:1b
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 gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec23.733.9
First chunkN/A1939 ms
TTFT234 ms1.9 s
Load time0.4 s1.8 s
Memory usage5.3 GB0.8 GB
Memory %17%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

gemma3:1b

Speed
50/50
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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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