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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.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score
65 vs 10
Hardware Fit
99 vs 33
Quality Score
51 vs 0

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0
Cores1064
RAM32 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, 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/sec28.53.5
First chunk393 ms3509 ms
TTFT393 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A30.0 s
Memory usage3.2 GB22.0 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
3/50
TTFT
0/20
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
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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