dolphin-phi:2.7b
OLLAMA GGUFphi2 · 3B · Q4_0
Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
61 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
44 vs 52
Hardware
dolphin-phi:2.7b 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
dolphin-phi:2.7b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec56.123.8
First chunkN/A232 ms
TTFT108 ms232 ms
Load time0.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage2.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %7%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
dolphin-phi:2.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
dolphin-phi:2.7b
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
2/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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
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