starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

35 vs 85

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

7 vs 94

Hardware

starcoder2:3b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Max

Cores616

RAM7 GB128 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Max

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Tokens/sec31.513.6

First chunk392 ms16 ms

TTFT392 ms558 ms

Load time4.8 s12.3 s

Memory usage1.8 GB0.0 GB

Memory %24%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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