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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
38 vs 84
Hardware Fit
98 vs 69
Quality Score
12 vs 90

Hardware

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Max
Cores416
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec39.328.9
First chunk573 ms33 ms
TTFT573 ms4.4 s
Load timeN/A7.9 s
Memory usage0.1 GB0.0 GB
Memory %1%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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