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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

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
48 vs 80
Hardware Fit
63 vs 85
Quality Score
41 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores480
RAM16 GB252 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec6.665.1
First chunk3184 ms289 ms
TTFT3.2 s4.2 s
Load timeN/A4.6 s
Memory usage1.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest