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starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
35 vs 71
Hardware Fit
97 vs 56
Quality Score
8 vs 78

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec23.85.3
First chunkN/A1624 ms
TTFT251 ms1.6 s
Load time0.4 s4.0 s
Memory usage6.3 GB7.9 GB
Memory %20%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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