smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 71
Hardware Fit
99 vs 88
Quality Score
51 vs 63
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec28.523.1
First chunk393 ms3279 ms
TTFT393 ms3.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB2.9 GB
Memory %10%9%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
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
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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