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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-IQ1_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · unknown

Good

Aug 21, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
65 vs 68
Hardware Fit
99 vs 69
Quality Score
51 vs 67

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/unsloth/Qwen…
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… hf.co/unsloth/Qwen…
Tokens/sec28.521.1
First chunk393 ms571 ms
TTFT393 ms571 ms
Load timeN/A4.9 s
Memory usage3.2 GB22.7 GB
Memory %10%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-2…

Speed
20/50
TTFT
19/20
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

hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-2…

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

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