smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
48 vs 68
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 54
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
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… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec6.677.3
First chunk3184 ms177 ms
TTFT3.2 s177 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
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
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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