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starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

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Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

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Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
35 vs 88
Hardware Fit
97 vs 80
Quality Score
8 vs 92

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec23.876.7
First chunkN/A29 ms
TTFT251 ms30.0 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage6.3 GB23.9 GB
Memory %20%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

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

Quality

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
2/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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