starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:0.8b

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 70

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

13 vs 51

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5:0.8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5:0.8b

Tokens/sec49.448.2

TTFT155 ms195 ms

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage3.0 GB2.5 GB

Memory %9%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

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

9/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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