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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
35 vs 95
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
7 vs 96

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac Studio
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M2 Max
Cores612
RAM7 GB96 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M2 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec31.580.4
First chunk392 ms46 ms
TTFT392 ms1.8 s
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB21.2 GB
Memory %24%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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