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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

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
48 vs 36
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 8

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen36-distill-apex
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M5 Max
Cores418
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec6.655.2
First chunk3184 ms210 ms
TTFT3.2 s210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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