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qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 48
Hardware Fit
87 vs 100
Quality Score
59 vs 13

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b starcoder2:3b
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 starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec37.949.4
TTFT3.1 s155 ms
Load time1.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.9 GB3.0 GB
Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
17/30
Memory
30/30

starcoder2:3b

Speed
40/40
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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
2/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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