starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 34

Hardware Fit

96 vs 58

Quality Score

52 vs 23

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:latest

Tokens/sec23.813.3

First chunk232 ms438 ms

TTFT232 ms19.8 s

Load time0.4 s0.2 s

Memory usage5.3 GB8.0 GB

Memory %17%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest