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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-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
65 vs 90
Hardware Fit
99 vs 98
Quality Score
51 vs 86

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec28.548.4
First chunk393 ms1085 ms
TTFT393 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A22.2 s
Memory usage3.2 GB22.9 GB
Memory %10%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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-q4_K_M

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
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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