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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
65 vs 71
Hardware Fit
99 vs 56
Quality Score
51 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec28.55.3
First chunk393 ms1624 ms
TTFT393 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage3.2 GB7.9 GB
Memory %10%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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