starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 73

Hardware Fit

100 vs 96

Quality Score

13 vs 63

Hardware

starcoder2:3b mistral:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b mistral:latest

Tokens/sec49.422.5

TTFT155 ms257 ms

Load time0.4 s0.6 s

Memory usage3.0 GB10.1 GB

Memory %9%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

Speed

36/40

TTFT

30/30

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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