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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
35 vs 52
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
7 vs 31

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
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 qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec31.5257.5
First chunk392 ms99 ms
TTFT392 ms99 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB0.3 GB
Memory %24%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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