starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 61

Hardware Fit

97 vs 100

Quality Score

8 vs 44

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3:0.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec23.8144.3

TTFT251 ms81 ms

Load time0.4 s0.9 s

Memory usage6.3 GB4.1 GB

Memory %20%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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