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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score
65 vs 62
Hardware Fit
96 vs 91
Quality Score
52 vs 50

Hardware

starling-lm:7b llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec23.8170.2
First chunk232 ms142 ms
TTFT232 ms142 ms
Load time0.4 s3.2 s
Memory usage5.3 GB1.6 GB
Memory %17%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest