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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
38 vs 55
Hardware Fit
98 vs 87
Quality Score
12 vs 41

Hardware

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec39.368.2
First chunk573 ms3268 ms
TTFT573 ms3.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.1 GB0.6 GB
Memory %1%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

smollm2-135m-instruct

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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