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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:31b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 31.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
65 vs 83
Hardware Fit
99 vs 60
Quality Score
51 vs 93

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:31b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:31b
Tokens/sec28.510.9
First chunk393 ms681 ms
TTFT393 ms681 ms
Load timeN/A16.6 s
Memory usage3.2 GB21.4 GB
Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

gemma4:31b

Speed
10/50
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

gemma4:31b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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