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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 63
Hardware Fit
92 vs 97
Quality Score
63 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b starling-lm:7b
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec120.723.7
First chunk93 msN/A
TTFT1.5 s234 ms
Load time2.5 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.8 GB5.3 GB
Memory %5%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest