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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

laguna-xs-2.1

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Aug 1, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
65 vs 84
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 77

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… laguna-xs-2.1
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… laguna-xs-2.1
Tokens/sec28.565.9
First chunk393 ms281 ms
TTFT393 ms281 ms
Load timeN/A9.9 s
Memory usage3.2 GB30.1 GB
Memory %10%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

laguna-xs-2.1

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

laguna-xs-2.1

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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