starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

65 vs 13

Hardware Fit

96 vs 41

Quality Score

52 vs 1

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:2b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:2b

Tokens/sec23.84.5

First chunk232 ms1413 ms

TTFT232 ms31.1 s

Load time0.4 s7.1 s

Memory usage5.3 GB3.8 GB

Memory %17%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:2b

Speed

11/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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