deepseek-r1:7b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
66 vs 63
Hardware Fit
63 vs 97
Quality Score
67 vs 49
Hardware
deepseek-r1:7b 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
deepseek-r1:7b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec35.623.7
First chunk224 msN/A
TTFT7.5 s234 ms
Load time7.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %29%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
deepseek-r1:7b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
deepseek-r1:7b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate 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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