starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

35 vs 77

Hardware Fit

97 vs 100

Quality Score

8 vs 67

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen2.5:3b

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 qwen2.5:3b

Tokens/sec23.821.4

First chunkN/A1006 ms

TTFT251 ms1.0 s

Load time0.4 s6.4 s

Memory usage6.3 GB2.0 GB

Memory %20%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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