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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
35 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
7 vs 86

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M5 Max
Cores618
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec31.5130.2
First chunk392 ms5 ms
TTFT392 ms135 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB26.6 GB
Memory %24%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest