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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
38 vs 63
Hardware Fit
98 vs 97
Quality Score
12 vs 49

Hardware

smollm2-135m-instr… starling-lm:7b
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… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec39.323.7
First chunk573 msN/A
TTFT573 ms234 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %1%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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