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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Oct 2, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor

Global Score
65 vs 84
Hardware Fit
99 vs 80
Quality Score
51 vs 86

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:26b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Cores1032
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec28.5147.6
First chunk393 ms139 ms
TTFT393 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A21.3 s
Memory usage3.2 GB1.7 GB
Memory %10%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

gemma4:26b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest