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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
65 vs 80
Hardware Fit
99 vs 60
Quality Score
51 vs 88

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1020
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Parsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec28.514.7
First chunk393 ms796 ms
TTFT393 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage3.2 GB17.9 GB
Memory %10%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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