starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

44 vs 48

Hardware Fit

97 vs 98

Quality Score

8 vs 15

Hardware

starcoder2:7b stablelm2:1.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec23.862.8

TTFT251 ms126 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage6.3 GB1.1 GB

Memory %20%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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