smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 4.33B · unknown
Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 66
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 52
Hardware
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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
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Tokens/sec28.526.5
First chunk393 ms447 ms
TTFT393 ms447 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage3.2 GB4.8 GB
Memory %10%30%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…
Speed
50/50
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
hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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