stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

45 vs 35

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

22 vs 8

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b starcoder2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec93.823.8

TTFT94 ms251 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.1 GB6.3 GB

Memory %3%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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