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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

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
48 vs 82
Hardware Fit
63 vs 81
Quality Score
41 vs 82

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700AZW GTR Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores432
RAM16 GB125 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Integrated / Apple Silicon
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec6.630.8
First chunk3184 ms195 ms
TTFT3.2 s195 ms
Load timeN/A6.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB18.8 GB
Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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