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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

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 36
Hardware Fit
63 vs 53
Quality Score
41 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec6.610.3
First chunk3184 ms27 ms
TTFT3.2 s20.7 s
Load timeN/A15.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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