smollm2:1.7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q8_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
gemma3:270m
OLLAMA GGUFgemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0
Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro
Global Score
64 vs 50
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
49 vs 30
Hardware
smollm2:1.7b gemma3:270m
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB36 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2:1.7b gemma3:270m
Tokens/sec51.8239.2
First chunkN/A127 ms
TTFT84 ms127 ms
Load time0.4 s0.7 s
Memory usage3.7 GB0.6 GB
Memory %12%2%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2:1.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
gemma3:270m
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30
Quality
smollm2:1.7b
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
gemma3:270m
Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest