smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
phi4:14b
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 75
Hardware Fit
99 vs 79
Quality Score
51 vs 73
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… phi4:14b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… phi4:14b
Tokens/sec28.511.0
First chunk393 msN/A
TTFT393 ms532 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage3.2 GB13.4 GB
Memory %10%42%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
phi4:14b
Speed
19/50
TTFT
30/20
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
phi4:14b
Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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