Back to leaderboard

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score
65 vs 62
Hardware Fit
99 vs 91
Quality Score
51 vs 50

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec28.5170.2
First chunk393 ms142 ms
TTFT393 ms142 ms
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage3.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %10%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest