starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

35 vs 59

Hardware Fit

97 vs 69

Quality Score

8 vs 54

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5:35b-a3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Tokens/sec23.830.5

First chunkN/A333 ms

TTFT251 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 s9.8 s

Memory usage6.3 GB25.1 GB

Memory %20%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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