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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 82
Hardware Fit
99 vs 71
Quality Score
51 vs 86

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec28.510.3
First chunk393 ms513 ms
TTFT393 ms513 ms
Load timeN/A7.2 s
Memory usage3.2 GB9.4 GB
Memory %10%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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