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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 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
35 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 52
Quality Score
7 vs 92

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/sec31.516.1
First chunk392 ms14 ms
TTFT392 ms5.8 s
Load time4.8 s8.5 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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest