mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
45 vs 63
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
21 vs 49
Hardware
mlx-community/quan… starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/quan… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec44.423.7
First chunk336 msN/A
TTFT336 ms234 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %0%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/quantized…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/quantized…
Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest