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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 96
Quality Score
75 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3:8b starling-lm:7b
MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec108.323.8
First chunk169 ms232 ms
TTFT169 ms232 ms
Load time1.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %18%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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