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deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 64
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
67 vs 49

Hardware

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MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec35.651.8
First chunk224 msN/A
TTFT7.5 s84 ms
Load time7.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.6 GB3.7 GB
Memory %29%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

smollm2:1.7b

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

Quality

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Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate 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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest