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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
35 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 81
Quality Score
7 vs 80

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5:9b
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 qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec31.511.8
First chunk392 msN/A
TTFT392 ms523 ms
Load time4.8 s2.9 s
Memory usage1.8 GB9.1 GB
Memory %24%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest