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llama2:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
56 vs 65
Hardware Fit
84 vs 99
Quality Score
44 vs 51

Hardware

llama2:13b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama2:13b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec13.528.5
First chunkN/A393 ms
TTFT415 ms393 ms
Load time0.6 sN/A
Memory usage10.3 GB3.2 GB
Memory %32%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama2:13b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

Quality

llama2:13b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest