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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon-h1-tiny-90m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

falcon-h1 · 90M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 8, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 43
Hardware Fit
99 vs 99
Quality Score
51 vs 19

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… falcon-h1-tiny-90m…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… falcon-h1-tiny-90m…
Tokens/sec28.567.8
First chunk393 ms762 ms
TTFT393 ms762 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB0.1 GB
Memory %10%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

falcon-h1-tiny-90m-inst…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

falcon-h1-tiny-90m-inst…

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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