smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
ornith-1.5:9b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M
Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
65 vs 69
Hardware Fit
99 vs 95
Quality Score
51 vs 58
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… ornith-1.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… ornith-1.5:9b
Tokens/sec28.522.2
First chunk393 ms341 ms
TTFT393 ms341 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage3.2 GB7.1 GB
Memory %10%45%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
ornith-1.5:9b
Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30
Quality
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
ornith-1.5:9b
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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