starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 75

Hardware Fit

100 vs 93

Quality Score

13 vs 67

Hardware

starcoder2:3b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec49.420.3

TTFT155 ms315 ms

Load time0.4 s1.1 s

Memory usage3.0 GB10.4 GB

Memory %9%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/40

TTFT

30/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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