starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

35 vs 37

Hardware Fit

97 vs 73

Quality Score

8 vs 22

Hardware

starcoder2:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starcoder2:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec23.818.4

First chunkN/A593 ms

TTFT251 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 s3.8 s

Memory usage6.3 GB1.0 GB

Memory %20%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

3/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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