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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
65 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 63

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec28.5257.7
First chunk393 ms92 ms
TTFT393 ms675 ms
Load timeN/A4.7 s
Memory usage3.2 GB0.9 GB
Memory %10%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3:0.6b

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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