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starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
35 vs 43
Hardware Fit
97 vs 99
Quality Score
8 vs 19

Hardware

starcoder2:7b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
Tokens/sec23.8344.2
First chunkN/A173 ms
TTFT251 ms173 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage6.3 GB0.3 GB
Memory %20%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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