smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:latest
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
65 vs 23
Hardware Fit
99 vs 70
Quality Score
51 vs 3
Hardware
smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2-1.7b-instr… deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec28.59.8
First chunk393 ms1206 ms
TTFT393 ms1.2 s
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage3.2 GB4.8 GB
Memory %10%65%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
deepseek-r1:latest
Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30
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
deepseek-r1:latest
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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