starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

39 vs 48

Hardware Fit

100 vs 61

Quality Score

13 vs 42

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-0.8b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-0.8b

Tokens/sec49.46.2

First chunkN/A4461 ms

TTFT155 ms4.5 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %9%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed

22/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

2/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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