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starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
35 vs 97
Hardware Fit
97 vs 95
Quality Score
8 vs 98

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec23.879.6
First chunkN/A11 ms
TTFT251 ms1.7 s
Load time0.4 s7.1 s
Memory usage6.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %20%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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