smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.8:latest
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M
Oct 2, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Global Score
65 vs 68
Hardware Fit
99 vs 22
Quality Score
51 vs 88
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.8:latest
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… qwen3.8:latest
Tokens/sec28.510.0
First chunk393 ms1041 ms
TTFT393 ms14.3 s
Load timeN/A22.3 s
Memory usage3.2 GB26.2 GB
Memory %10%82%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
qwen3.8:latest
Speed
12/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
9/30
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
qwen3.8:latest
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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