starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

35 vs 84

Hardware Fit

97 vs 66

Quality Score

8 vs 92

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.8:27b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.8:27b

Tokens/sec23.829.4

First chunkN/A306 ms

TTFT251 ms4.8 s

Load time0.4 s5.3 s

Memory usage6.3 GB16.2 GB

Memory %20%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest