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spark-x2.5-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

spark2_5 · 4B · Q4_K_M

Good

Sep 30, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 65
Hardware Fit
90 vs 96
Quality Score
71 vs 52

Hardware

spark-x2.5-4b starling-lm:7b
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IMMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 4800HApple M4
Cores1610
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPUApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

spark-x2.5-4b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec48.923.8
First chunk20 ms232 ms
TTFT168 ms232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage9.4 GB5.3 GB
Memory %61%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

spark-x2.5-4b

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

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

spark-x2.5-4b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong 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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