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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

smollm2:360m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 52
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 32

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… smollm2:360m
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… smollm2:360m
Tokens/sec6.6117.9
First chunk3184 msN/A
TTFT3.2 s43 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.2 GB
Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

smollm2:360m

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest