mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
53 vs 65
Hardware Fit
99 vs 99
Quality Score
33 vs 51
Hardware
mlx-community/Nanb… 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
mlx-community/Nanb… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec25.428.5
First chunk266 ms393 ms
TTFT266 ms393 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB3.2 GB
Memory %0%10%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Nanbeige4…
Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
Quality
mlx-community/Nanbeige4…
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak
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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