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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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
48 vs 72
Hardware Fit
63 vs 89
Quality Score
41 vs 65

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-9b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec6.628.9
First chunk3184 ms338 ms
TTFT3.2 s338 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB6.1 GB
Memory %6%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
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
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest