starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

39 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 81

Quality Score

13 vs 82

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec49.430.8

First chunkN/A195 ms

TTFT155 ms195 ms

Load time0.4 s5.2 s

Memory usage3.0 GB18.8 GB

Memory %9%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

31/50

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest