smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXgpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
65 vs 87
Hardware Fit
99 vs 82
Quality Score
51 vs 89
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… gpt-oss-safeguard-…
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… gpt-oss-safeguard-…
Tokens/sec28.541.4
First chunk393 ms8 ms
TTFT393 ms3.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB14.5 GB
Memory %10%61%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
20/30
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
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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