qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

80 vs 35

Hardware Fit

88 vs 100

Quality Score

76 vs 7

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b starcoder2:3b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec16.631.5

First chunkN/A392 ms

TTFT369 ms392 ms

Load time1.5 s4.8 s

Memory usage6.5 GB1.8 GB

Memory %20%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

28/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

2/10

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