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starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
35 vs 89
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
8 vs 86

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec23.889.9
First chunkN/A188 ms
TTFT251 ms188 ms
Load time0.4 s4.0 s
Memory usage6.3 GB30.2 GB
Memory %20%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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