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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Oct 1, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Global Score
39 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
13 vs 56

Hardware

starcoder2:3b liquid/lfm2-1.2b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b liquid/lfm2-1.2b
Tokens/sec49.4169.5
First chunkN/A27 ms
TTFT155 ms77 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB3.4 GB
Memory %9%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

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

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

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

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

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest