starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score

35 vs 78

Hardware Fit

97 vs 86

Quality Score

8 vs 74

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Cores1024

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec23.848.5

First chunkN/A202 ms

TTFT251 ms4.3 s

Load time0.4 s4.2 s

Memory usage6.3 GB5.5 GB

Memory %20%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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