qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 63

Hardware Fit

82 vs 97

Quality Score

48 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3:14b starling-lm:7b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec24.423.7

First chunk294 msN/A

TTFT7.9 s234 ms

Load time3.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.8 GB5.3 GB

Memory %43%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor 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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