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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
65 vs 64
Hardware Fit
99 vs 69
Quality Score
51 vs 62

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores108
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec28.57.4
First chunk393 ms1815 ms
TTFT393 ms1.8 s
Load timeN/A10.9 s
Memory usage3.2 GB3.5 GB
Memory %10%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
19/50
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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