starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
ministral-3:3b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 71
Hardware Fit
96 vs 99
Quality Score
52 vs 59
Hardware
starling-lm:7b ministral-3:3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starling-lm:7b ministral-3:3b
Tokens/sec23.842.2
First chunk232 ms189 ms
TTFT232 ms189 ms
Load time0.4 s1.2 s
Memory usage5.3 GB7.0 GB
Memory %17%22%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
ministral-3:3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
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
ministral-3:3b
Reasoning
5/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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