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hf.co/mradermacher/gemma-4-E4B-GGUF:Q6_K

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 7.52B · unknown

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
41 vs 63
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
16 vs 49

Hardware

hf.co/mradermacher… starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/mradermacher… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec34.623.7
First chunk179 msN/A
TTFT179 ms234 ms
Load time3.9 s0.4 s
Memory usage3.9 GB5.3 GB
Memory %25%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/mradermacher/gemm…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hf.co/mradermacher/gemm…

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor 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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