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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 65
Hardware Fit
93 vs 96
Quality Score
31 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b starling-lm:7b
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec92.623.8
First chunk323 ms232 ms
TTFT2.8 s232 ms
Load time9.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage2.9 GB5.3 GB
Memory %38%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
28/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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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