starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

65 vs 57

Hardware Fit

96 vs 61

Quality Score

52 vs 55

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec23.830.3

First chunk232 ms205 ms

TTFT232 ms8.7 s

Load time0.4 s5.6 s

Memory usage5.3 GB18.8 GB

Memory %17%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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