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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

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
48 vs 65
Hardware Fit
63 vs 92
Quality Score
41 vs 54

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700iMac
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores48
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.3
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec6.619.6
First chunk3184 ms690 ms
TTFT3.2 s690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %6%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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