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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 8.95B · unknown

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 62
Hardware Fit
99 vs 96
Quality Score
51 vs 47

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
Tokens/sec28.522.3
First chunk393 ms324 ms
TTFT393 ms324 ms
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage3.2 GB6.9 GB
Memory %10%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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