smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0
LM-STUDIO GGUFllama · 1.1B · Q3_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Global Score
65 vs 33
Hardware Fit
99 vs 76
Quality Score
51 vs 14
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
Tokens/sec28.59.9
First chunk393 ms3166 ms
TTFT393 ms3.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB0.5 GB
Memory %10%3%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0
Speed
32/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
28/30
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
tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0
Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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