starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

35 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

7 vs 55

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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 qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec31.533.2

First chunk392 ms7 ms

TTFT392 ms311 ms

Load time4.8 sN/A

Memory usage1.8 GB0.5 GB

Memory %24%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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