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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

minimax-m2.7:cloud

OLLAMA GGUF

minimax

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 74
Hardware Fit
99 vs 34
Quality Score
51 vs 91

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… minimax-m2.7:cloud
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… minimax-m2.7:cloud
Tokens/sec28.50.0
First chunk393 ms7588 ms
TTFT393 ms11.4 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage3.2 GB0.7 GB
Memory %10%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Speed
0/50
TTFT
4/20
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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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