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gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
80 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
71 vs 7

Hardware

gemma3:4b starcoder2:3b
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

gemma3:4b starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec34.631.5
First chunkN/A392 ms
TTFT303 ms392 ms
Load time1.2 s4.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB1.8 GB
Memory %14%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma3:4b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

starcoder2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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