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deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 39
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
70 vs 13

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.249.4
First chunk285 msN/A
TTFT285 ms155 ms
Load time0.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.6 GB3.0 GB
Memory %24%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starcoder2:3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
2/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest