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deepseek-r1:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
47 vs 65
Hardware Fit
51 vs 96
Quality Score
45 vs 52

Hardware

deepseek-r1:70b starling-lm:7b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec4.723.8
First chunk557 ms232 ms
TTFT557 ms232 ms
Load time52.6 s0.4 s
Memory usage49.5 GB5.3 GB
Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:70b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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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