smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 48

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

30 vs 13

Hardware

smollm2:360m starcoder2:3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:360m starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec115.149.4

TTFT39 ms155 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.2 GB3.0 GB

Memory %4%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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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