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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 63
Hardware Fit
69 vs 97
Quality Score
58 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b starling-lm:7b
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec35.723.7
First chunk438 msN/A
TTFT5.1 s234 ms
Load time40.1 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.5 GB5.3 GB
Memory %35%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
8/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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
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