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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
65 vs 79
Hardware Fit
99 vs 59
Quality Score
51 vs 88

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:32b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:32b
Tokens/sec28.59.7
First chunk393 ms324 ms
TTFT393 ms324 ms
Load timeN/A24.5 s
Memory usage3.2 GB26.8 GB
Memory %10%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3:32b

Speed
9/50
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

qwen3:32b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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