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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
48 vs 85
Hardware Fit
63 vs 96
Quality Score
41 vs 80

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700ASUS
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores420
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec6.688.6
First chunk3184 ms306 ms
TTFT3.2 s306 ms
Load timeN/A7.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB8.1 GB
Memory %6%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5:9b

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

Quality

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5:9b

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