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mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
45 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
21 vs 8

Hardware

mlx-community/quan… 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/quan… starcoder2:7b
Tokens/sec44.423.8
First chunk336 msN/A
TTFT336 ms251 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.1 GB6.3 GB
Memory %0%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/quantized…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest