gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

83 vs 63

Hardware Fit

65 vs 97

Quality Score

90 vs 49

Hardware

gpt-oss:20b starling-lm:7b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gpt-oss:20b starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec17.123.7

First chunk705 msN/A

TTFT10.2 s234 ms

Load time23.1 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.1 GB5.3 GB

Memory %55%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss:20b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

23/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong 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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