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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
65 vs 81
Hardware Fit
96 vs 96
Quality Score
52 vs 75

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec23.8109.1
First chunk232 ms190 ms
TTFT232 ms190 ms
Load time0.4 s4.3 s
Memory usage5.3 GB5.6 GB
Memory %17%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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