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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nvfp4-dspark-v2@?

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
65 vs 86
Hardware Fit
99 vs 84
Quality Score
51 vs 87

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nv…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec28.569.2
First chunk393 ms14 ms
TTFT393 ms238 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB22.2 GB
Memory %10%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nvfp4-d…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
14/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nvfp4-d…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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