smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

41 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

15 vs 49

Hardware

smollm2:135m 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

smollm2:135m starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec241.023.7

TTFT39 ms234 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage0.6 GB5.3 GB

Memory %2%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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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