vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 65

Hardware Fit

84 vs 96

Quality Score

48 vs 52

Hardware

vicuna:13b starling-lm:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

vicuna:13b starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec13.423.8

First chunkN/A232 ms

TTFT438 ms232 ms

Load time0.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.3 GB5.3 GB

Memory %32%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

3/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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