smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Global Score
65 vs 61
Hardware Fit
99 vs 69
Quality Score
51 vs 58
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
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
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec28.56.6
First chunk393 ms2277 ms
TTFT393 ms2.3 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
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
23/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30
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
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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npm install -g metrillm@latest$
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest