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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 6, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
65 vs 81
Hardware Fit
99 vs 63
Quality Score
51 vs 88

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
RAM32 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…
Tokens/sec28.517.2
First chunk393 ms845 ms
TTFT393 ms845 ms
Load timeN/A103.1 s
Memory usage3.2 GB21.9 GB
Memory %10%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong 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