starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

35 vs 58

Hardware Fit

97 vs 82

Quality Score

8 vs 48

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3:14b

Tokens/sec23.824.4

First chunkN/A294 ms

TTFT251 ms7.9 s

Load time0.4 s3.7 s

Memory usage6.3 GB13.8 GB

Memory %20%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:14b

Speed

47/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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