qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 35

Hardware Fit

50 vs 97

Quality Score

86 vs 8

Hardware

qwen2.5:72b starcoder2:7b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air

CPUCortex-X925Apple M4

Cores2010

RAM122 GB32 GB

GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:72b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec4.423.8

First chunk529 msN/A

TTFT529 ms251 ms

Load time49.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage54.0 GB6.3 GB

Memory %44%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:72b

Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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