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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 63
Hardware Fit
79 vs 97
Quality Score
87 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b starling-lm:7b
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec27.423.7
First chunk593 msN/A
TTFT593 ms234 ms
Load time0.3 s0.4 s
Memory usage18.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %15%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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

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