starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

35 vs 69

Hardware Fit

97 vs 50

Quality Score

8 vs 77

Hardware

starcoder2:7b mistralai/devstral…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b mistralai/devstral…

Tokens/sec23.85.7

First chunkN/A5007 ms

TTFT251 ms5.0 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage6.3 GB13.2 GB

Memory %20%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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