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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nemotron_h · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 24, 2026 · Intel Core™ i3-9100F

Global Score
65 vs 83
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 75

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… nvidia-nemotron-3-…
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H310M S2 2.0
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i3-9100F
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Virtual Desktop Monitor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
OSmacOS 26.3Майкрософт Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… nvidia-nemotron-3-…
Tokens/sec28.528.9
First chunk393 ms22 ms
TTFT393 ms580 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB3.8 GB
Memory %10%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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