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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

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 33
Hardware Fit
63 vs 50
Quality Score
41 vs 25

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:26b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec6.620.0
First chunk3184 ms941 ms
TTFT3.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage1.0 GB20.3 GB
Memory %6%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

gemma4:26b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
8/30

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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