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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-2-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma2 · 2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 58
Hardware Fit
99 vs 50
Quality Score
51 vs 62

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma-2-2b-it
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… gemma-2-2b-it
Tokens/sec28.53.6
First chunk393 ms4509 ms
TTFT393 ms4.5 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %10%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

gemma-2-2b-it

Speed
14/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
24/30

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

gemma-2-2b-it

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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