starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

35 vs 47

Hardware Fit

97 vs 51

Quality Score

8 vs 45

Hardware

starcoder2:7b deepseek-r1:70b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.84.7

First chunkN/A557 ms

TTFT251 ms557 ms

Load time0.4 s52.6 s

Memory usage6.3 GB49.5 GB

Memory %20%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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