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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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
48 vs 49
Hardware Fit
63 vs 54
Quality Score
41 vs 47

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Dell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores416
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec6.621.6
First chunk3184 ms1505 ms
TTFT3.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB22.7 GB
Memory %6%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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