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google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

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

Hardware

google/gemma-3-27b starcoder2:3b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM24 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

google/gemma-3-27b starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec5.931.5
First chunk19 ms392 ms
TTFT1.8 s392 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage22.0 GB1.8 GB
Memory %92%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed
12/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
4/30

starcoder2:3b

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

Quality

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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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