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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

yi-coder-1.5b-chat

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 45
Hardware Fit
99 vs 67
Quality Score
51 vs 35

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec28.57.7
First chunk393 ms2668 ms
TTFT393 ms2.7 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB0.9 GB
Memory %10%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

yi-coder-1.5b-chat

Speed
26/50
TTFT
17/20
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

yi-coder-1.5b-chat

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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