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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

spark-x2.5-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

spark2_5 · 4B · Q4_K_M

Good

Sep 30, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Global Score
65 vs 77
Hardware Fit
99 vs 90
Quality Score
51 vs 71

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… spark-x2.5-4b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… spark-x2.5-4b
Tokens/sec28.548.9
First chunk393 ms20 ms
TTFT393 ms168 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB9.4 GB
Memory %10%61%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

spark-x2.5-4b

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

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

spark-x2.5-4b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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