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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-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
48 vs 83
Hardware Fit
63 vs 96
Quality Score
41 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac Studio
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M2 Max
Cores412
RAM16 GB96 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M2 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec6.691.2
First chunk3184 ms150 ms
TTFT3.2 s150 ms
Load timeN/A5.3 s
Memory usage1.0 GB42.5 GB
Memory %6%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest