starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

65 vs 58

Hardware Fit

96 vs 82

Quality Score

52 vs 48

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3:14b

Tokens/sec23.824.4

First chunk232 ms294 ms

TTFT232 ms7.9 s

Load time0.4 s3.7 s

Memory usage5.3 GB13.8 GB

Memory %17%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:14b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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