starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

35 vs 46

Hardware Fit

97 vs 61

Quality Score

8 vs 40

Hardware

starcoder2:7b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec23.87.8

First chunkN/A1625 ms

TTFT251 ms1.6 s

Load time0.4 s21.8 s

Memory usage6.3 GB5.2 GB

Memory %20%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

1/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

View starcoder2:7b details | View llama3.1:8b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest