smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
mistral-small:24b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925
Global Score
65 vs 75
Hardware Fit
99 vs 64
Quality Score
51 vs 80
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… mistral-small:24b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec28.514.3
First chunk393 ms327 ms
TTFT393 ms327 ms
Load timeN/A12.0 s
Memory usage3.2 GB18.5 GB
Memory %10%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
mistral-small:24b
Speed
14/50
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
mistral-small:24b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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