smollm2:1.7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q8_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
64 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
49 vs 60
Hardware
smollm2:1.7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec51.832.9
First chunkN/A3096 ms
TTFT84 ms3.1 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.7 GB2.5 GB
Memory %12%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2:1.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest