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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
65 vs 79
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 70

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec28.5188.0
First chunk393 ms108 ms
TTFT393 ms1.2 s
Load timeN/A7.5 s
Memory usage3.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %10%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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