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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 80
Hardware Fit
99 vs 93
Quality Score
51 vs 74

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… rnj-1:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… rnj-1:8b
Tokens/sec28.522.3
First chunk393 ms404 ms
TTFT393 ms404 ms
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage3.2 GB8.3 GB
Memory %10%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

rnj-1:8b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
5/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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