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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
65 vs 77
Hardware Fit
99 vs 75
Quality Score
51 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec28.530.5
First chunk393 ms291 ms
TTFT393 ms291 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage3.2 GB8.8 GB
Memory %10%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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