starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

44 /100

Marginal

Hardware Fit

97/100

Quality

8/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 23.8
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.6
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 251 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.4 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 6.3 GB (20%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 830

Score breakdown

Speed

37/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction following

4/20

Structured output

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

Category levels

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: d532e2701569b6f7c8474d2a26ef568860d20dee100b64b16eecf73e1f659f07

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 97/100. Overall suitability: MARGINAL (Global 44/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Poor, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Poor, Structured Output: Poor, Math: Poor, Multilingual: Poor. Warning: model produced very low accuracy on quality tasks — results may be unusable despite good hardware performance.

Warnings

Model produced very low accuracy on quality tasks — results may be unusable despite good hardware performance.

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