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smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 2, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor

Global Score
64 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 22
Quality Score
49 vs 88

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b qwen3.8:latest
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Cores1032
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b qwen3.8:latest
Tokens/sec51.810.0
First chunkN/A1041 ms
TTFT84 ms14.3 s
Load time0.4 s22.3 s
Memory usage3.7 GB26.2 GB
Memory %12%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8:latest

Speed
12/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
9/30

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

qwen3.8:latest

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest