smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
liquid/lfm2-1.2b
LM-STUDIO GGUFlfm2 · 1.2B · Q8_0
Oct 1, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Global Score
65 vs 69
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 56
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… liquid/lfm2-1.2b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… liquid/lfm2-1.2b
Tokens/sec28.5169.5
First chunk393 ms27 ms
TTFT393 ms77 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB3.4 GB
Memory %10%22%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
liquid/lfm2-1.2b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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
liquid/lfm2-1.2b
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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