starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 51

Quality Score

7 vs 81

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/sec31.514.4

First chunk392 ms4 ms

TTFT392 ms824 ms

Load time4.8 sN/A

Memory usage1.8 GB48.3 GB

Memory %24%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

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

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest