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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex-mtp

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Global Score
65 vs 92
Hardware Fit
99 vs 87
Quality Score
51 vs 94

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M AORUS PRO
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
Cores1012
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti]
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec28.542.6
First chunk393 ms13 ms
TTFT393 ms3.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB23.2 GB
Memory %10%49%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
20/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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