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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.08B · F16

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 71
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 58

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/openbmb/Mini…
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… hf.co/openbmb/Mini…
Tokens/sec28.588.1
First chunk393 ms38 ms
TTFT393 ms38 ms
Load timeN/A1.6 s
Memory usage3.2 GB3.9 GB
Memory %10%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-…

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

hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-…

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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