starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

35 vs 65

Hardware Fit

97 vs 88

Quality Score

8 vs 55

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Tokens/sec23.848.9

First chunkN/A4208 ms

TTFT251 ms4.2 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage6.3 GB1.6 GB

Memory %20%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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