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ornith-1.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 99
Quality Score
58 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.228.5
First chunk341 ms393 ms
TTFT341 ms393 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.1 GB3.2 GB
Memory %45%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ornith-1.5:9b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

ornith-1.5:9b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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