smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
llama3.2:1b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.2B · Q8_0
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
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