smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 95

Quality Score

49 vs 79

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b qwen2.5:7b

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 qwen2.5:7b

Tokens/sec51.822.2

TTFT84 ms285 ms

Load time0.4 s0.8 s

Memory usage3.7 GB7.6 GB

Memory %12%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

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

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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