starcoder2:3b
OLLAMA GGUFstarcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
35 vs 58
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
7 vs 54
Hardware
starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB24 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec31.516.7
First chunk392 ms23 ms
TTFT392 ms14.1 s
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB7.8 GB
Memory %24%33%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starcoder2:3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30
Quality
starcoder2:3b
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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