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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
35 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
7 vs 87

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
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 qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec31.516.4
First chunk392 ms5 ms
TTFT392 ms742 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB38.5 GB
Memory %24%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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