qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 35

Hardware Fit

85 vs 97

Quality Score

78 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3:8b starcoder2:7b

MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Air

CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M4

Cores8010

RAM252 GB32 GB

GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec65.123.8

First chunk289 msN/A

TTFT4.2 s251 ms

Load time4.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.6 GB6.3 GB

Memory %2%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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

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