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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

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
48 vs 59
Hardware Fit
63 vs 69
Quality Score
41 vs 54

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB48 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec6.630.5
First chunk3184 ms333 ms
TTFT3.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A9.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB25.1 GB
Memory %6%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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