starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 36

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

7 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB24 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec31.510.3

First chunk392 ms27 ms

TTFT392 ms20.7 s

Load time4.8 s15.4 s

Memory usage1.8 GB1.0 GB

Memory %24%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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