starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

35 vs 82

Hardware Fit

97 vs 80

Quality Score

8 vs 83

Hardware

starcoder2:7b qwen3.6-35b-a3b

MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:7b qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Tokens/sec23.854.7

First chunkN/A32 ms

TTFT251 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage6.3 GB30.3 GB

Memory %20%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

14/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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