starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 94

Quality Score

13 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec49.445.3

First chunkN/A2440 ms

TTFT155 ms2.4 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %9%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

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

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest