starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 35

Quality Score

13 vs 86

Hardware

starcoder2:3b google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec49.45.9

First chunkN/A19 ms

TTFT155 ms1.8 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB22.0 GB

Memory %9%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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