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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 39
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
8 vs 13

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex starcoder2:3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec55.249.4
First chunk210 msN/A
TTFT210 ms155 ms
Load time4.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage0.9 GB3.0 GB
Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

starcoder2:3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest