starcoder2:3b
OLLAMA GGUFstarcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
dolphin3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
35 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
7 vs 66
Hardware
starcoder2:3b dolphin3:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starcoder2:3b dolphin3:8b
Tokens/sec31.521.0
First chunk392 ms314 ms
TTFT392 ms314 ms
Load time4.8 s0.8 s
Memory usage1.8 GB10.4 GB
Memory %24%33%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starcoder2:3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
dolphin3:8b
Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
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
dolphin3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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