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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

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
48 vs 81
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 73

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… llama3.1:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores416
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec6.670.2
First chunk3184 ms58 ms
TTFT3.2 s58 ms
Load timeN/A4.1 s
Memory usage1.0 GB4.9 GB
Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

llama3.1:8b

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest