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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
38 vs 36
Hardware Fit
98 vs 100
Quality Score
12 vs 8

Hardware

smollm2-135m-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

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec39.355.2
First chunk573 ms210 ms
TTFT573 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage0.1 GB0.9 GB
Memory %1%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

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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