smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:7b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500
Global Score
65 vs 66
Hardware Fit
99 vs 63
Quality Score
51 vs 67
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec28.535.6
First chunk393 ms224 ms
TTFT393 ms7.5 s
Load timeN/A7.7 s
Memory usage3.2 GB4.6 GB
Memory %10%29%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
deepseek-r1:7b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30
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
deepseek-r1:7b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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