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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

falcon-h1 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 8, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 57
Hardware Fit
96 vs 91
Quality Score
52 vs 42

Hardware

starling-lm:7b falcon-h1-0.5b-ins…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b falcon-h1-0.5b-ins…
Tokens/sec23.816.3
First chunk232 ms2987 ms
TTFT232 ms3.0 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB0.3 GB
Memory %17%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Speed
48/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
27/30

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

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Poor

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