smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
mistralai/magistral-small-2509
LM-STUDIO MLXmistral3 · 24B · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 66
Quality Score
51 vs 78
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… mistralai/magistra…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… mistralai/magistra…
Tokens/sec28.57.9
First chunk393 ms1356 ms
TTFT393 ms1.4 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB13.2 GB
Memory %10%41%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
mistralai/magistral-sma…
Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
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
mistralai/magistral-sma…
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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