starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 54

Hardware Fit

96 vs 100

Quality Score

52 vs 34

Hardware

starling-lm:7b falcon3-1b-instruct

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec23.8121.8

First chunk232 ms176 ms

TTFT232 ms176 ms

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage5.3 GB0.7 GB

Memory %17%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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