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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

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Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
35 vs 20
Hardware Fit
100 vs 34
Quality Score
7 vs 14

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.6:27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores612
RAM7 GB24 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec31.510.6
First chunk392 ms1344 ms
TTFT392 ms30.0 s
Load time4.8 s0.2 s
Memory usage1.8 GB18.1 GB
Memory %24%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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