smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
lfm2.5:latest
OLLAMA GGUFlfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M
Jun 11, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Global Score
65 vs 73
Hardware Fit
99 vs 93
Quality Score
51 vs 65
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… lfm2.5:latest
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 44
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… lfm2.5:latest
Tokens/sec28.518.3
First chunk393 ms981 ms
TTFT393 ms981 ms
Load timeN/A8.0 s
Memory usage3.2 GB4.9 GB
Memory %10%21%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
lfm2.5:latest
Speed
43/50
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
lfm2.5:latest
Reasoning
2/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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