starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

63 vs 29

Hardware Fit

97 vs 86

Quality Score

49 vs 4

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3:4b

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 qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec23.717.9

First chunkN/A1010 ms

TTFT234 ms6.4 s

Load time0.4 s9.5 s

Memory usage5.3 GB3.0 GB

Memory %17%40%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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