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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 59
Hardware Fit
96 vs 69
Quality Score
52 vs 54

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec23.830.5
First chunk232 ms333 ms
TTFT232 ms30.0 s
Load time0.4 s9.8 s
Memory usage5.3 GB25.1 GB
Memory %17%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest