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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 66
Hardware Fit
96 vs 87
Quality Score
52 vs 57

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.818.3
First chunk232 ms541 ms
TTFT232 ms541 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB4.7 GB
Memory %17%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed
37/50
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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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