smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
48 vs 62
Hardware Fit
63 vs 35
Quality Score
41 vs 73
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec6.60.0
First chunk3184 ms5548 ms
TTFT3.2 s5.5 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB2.9 GB
Memory %6%5%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30
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
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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