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nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
93 vs 64
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
90 vs 49

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano smollm2:1.7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nemotron-3-nano smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec93.351.8
First chunk257 msN/A
TTFT257 ms84 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.1 GB3.7 GB
Memory %0%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano

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

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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