smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16
OLLAMA GGUFlfm2 · 2.7B · unknown
Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
65 vs 61
Hardware Fit
99 vs 97
Quality Score
51 vs 46
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…
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
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Tokens/sec28.531.0
First chunk393 ms129 ms
TTFT393 ms129 ms
Load timeN/A3.5 s
Memory usage3.2 GB6.6 GB
Memory %10%41%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…
Speed
50/50
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/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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