starcoder2:3b
OLLAMA GGUFstarcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Gemma4-26B:26b
OLLAMA GGUFgemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M
Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Global Score
39 vs 92
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
13 vs 89
Hardware
starcoder2:3b Gemma4-26B:26b
MachineMacBook AirHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1020
RAM32 GB55 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starcoder2:3b Gemma4-26B:26b
Tokens/sec49.461.3
First chunkN/A185 ms
TTFT155 ms185 ms
Load time0.4 s22.9 s
Memory usage3.0 GB16.4 GB
Memory %9%30%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starcoder2:3b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Gemma4-26B:26b
Speed
50/50
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
Gemma4-26B:26b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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