starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score

39 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 85

Quality Score

13 vs 78

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Cores1080

RAM32 GB252 GB

GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec49.465.1

First chunkN/A289 ms

TTFT155 ms4.2 s

Load time0.4 s4.6 s

Memory usage3.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %9%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest