starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 65

Quality Score

7 vs 57

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec31.514.3

First chunk392 ms24 ms

TTFT392 ms13.4 s

Load time4.8 s13.3 s

Memory usage1.8 GB2.5 GB

Memory %24%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

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-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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