smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M
OLLAMA GGUFqwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M
Jul 29, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Global Score
65 vs 83
Hardware Fit
99 vs 66
Quality Score
51 vs 90
Hardware
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MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
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Tokens/sec28.517.7
First chunk393 ms1244 ms
TTFT393 ms1.2 s
Load timeN/A20.5 s
Memory usage3.2 GB20.6 GB
Memory %10%21%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…
Speed
19/50
TTFT
17/20
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
qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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