qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 44

Hardware Fit

87 vs 97

Quality Score

59 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b starcoder2:7b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec37.923.8

TTFT3.1 s251 ms

Load time1.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage4.9 GB6.3 GB

Memory %15%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

17/30

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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