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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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
48 vs 60
Hardware Fit
63 vs 90
Quality Score
41 vs 47

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700NVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UCortex-A78AE
Cores46
RAM16 GB7 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Integrated / Unknown
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec6.634.6
First chunk3184 ms5314 ms
TTFT3.2 s5.3 s
Load timeN/A5.1 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.1 GB
Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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