starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

7 vs 45

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3:4b

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 Modebalancedunknown

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec31.511.3

First chunk392 msN/A

TTFT392 ms9.2 s

Load time4.8 s0.1 s

Memory usage1.8 GB7.2 GB

Memory %24%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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