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gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
39 vs 52

Hardware

gemma3:1b starling-lm:7b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma3:1b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec33.923.8
First chunk1939 ms232 ms
TTFT1.9 s232 ms
Load time1.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage0.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %11%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:1b

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

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest