mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
starcoder2:7b
OLLAMA GGUFstarcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
57 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
39 vs 8
Hardware
mlx-community/Llam… starcoder2:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Llam… starcoder2:7b
Tokens/sec126.423.8
First chunk139 msN/A
TTFT139 ms251 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB6.3 GB
Memory %1%20%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
starcoder2:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Reasoning
5/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
10/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
starcoder2:7b
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
2/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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