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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 4.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
65 vs 85
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:e2b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma4:e2b
Tokens/sec28.5139.2
First chunk393 ms51 ms
TTFT393 ms51 ms
Load timeN/A28.5 s
Memory usage3.2 GB0.2 GB
Memory %10%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

gemma4:e2b

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

gemma4:e2b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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