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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
51 vs 65
Hardware Fit
46 vs 96
Quality Score
53 vs 52

Hardware

phi4-mini starling-lm:7b
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4
Cores810
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec2.623.8
First chunk5406 ms232 ms
TTFT5.4 s232 ms
Load time27.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %30%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak 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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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest